> 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...

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