Our 2 cents: Teeth and bowels are impacted. Two, taxonomies rely on established criteria for classification, whereas folksonomies are susceptible to error and caprice.ĭefinition: To affect one’s business e.g., “Savvy marketing can impact your bottom line.” Our 2 cents: One, “folk taxonomy” is an existing anthropological concept that may cause confusion.
Our 2 cents: Why do people in the workplace need yet another euphemism to describe capacity? Is it shame? Fear? We really don’t know.ĭefinition: Derived from “taxonomy,” this cutesy colloquialism used to describe people-driven, collaborative organizational schema such as and flickr, where “plain folks” tag and classify content. Our 2 cents: We’re hearing it used to mean “exception to the rule,” but we’d just prefer to hear “exception to the rule.” With that phrase, everyone will know what you’re talking about.ĭefinition: Available time and resources, like “bandwidth.” Use derived from references to computer processing cycles. You can dump significant others, you can dump your lunch dump this trite phrase, not your brain.ĭefinition: Originally a legitimate engineering term, a corner case refers to a situation that happens when numerous variables occur simultaneously at extreme levels. Our 2 cents: We suppose it’s better to brain dump than brain constipate, but the noun phrase already exists in the English language: “in-depth.” Need to teach someone how do something quickly? You’re talking “in-depth.” Feel like unloading your mind into your online journal? That’s a feature-but it’s also an “in-depth” discussion. The target, or “dumpee,” could also be a simple object: a piece of paper or its online equivalent, a blog. Our 2 cents: The darling of dotcommers and techies in the ’90s, this word is past its prime.ĭefinition: Quickly transfer a large body of knowledge from one individual to another. Products have features included in them.ĭefinition: Capacity e.g., “We don’t have the bandwidth to create that presentation.” Our 2 cents: Our mothers’ brownies have walnuts baked into them. For example, “The spellchecker is baked into the email program.” Our 2 cents: OK for use in conversation, but don’t write it down it’s clunky and awkward-looking.ĭefinition: Anything that comes with a product. Our 2 cents: Stealing lingo from wordy lawyers? That’s a bad sign.ĭefinition: The moment when you get it: the solution, the realization, the answer. This edition features 25 jargon words to avoid (like the plague).ĭefinition: Subject to or affording ground for an action or suit at law in business terms, it’s the idea of taking action toward a solution e.g., “Let’s take actionable steps to solve that issue.” Below is a comprehensive list of basketball terms to help educate fans of all levels.Welcome to another edition of Jargon Watch, Tendo’s periodic column featuring objectionable business jargon. With the sport being over 100 years old and the popularity growing international, the list of basketball terms to describe all parts of the game continue to grow. The main objective of the game is to shoot a ball through a hoop that is attached to a backboard on each side of the court. The game is a team sport with limited contact, that is typically places two teams consisting of five players against each other. James Naismith in 1891 in Springfield, Massachusetts. The game of basketball was created by Dr. This is a list of common basketball lingo, terminology and jargon terms.
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