On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:43:07 +0100, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:

>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7457287.stm
>
>Many of those are annoyingly familiar.
>
>I think a number of commentators have hit upon something here: These 
>definitely seems to be a certain type of person who uses lots of cryptic 
>and impressive-sounding phrases as a _substitute_ for *actually having a 
>clue*! This is probably what irritates so many people - rather than the 
>words themselves. It's the air of arrogance and self-importance of 
>people who clearly and obviously don't know what the hell they're doing.
>
>It does seem that these people have something of an insecurity complex, 
>and feel compelled to jump on whatever buzzword is trendy for the next 
>few seconds to give the impression that they are somehow "important" or 
>"knowledgable". Sad, really...

Agreed.  I'd say they need to get their ducks in a row.

*runs for the hills*

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