Microspeak: geeks' pastimes
Buzzword Bingo Deeply, perhaps uniquely cynical pastime, a competition taking place at company meetings. The meetings, essentially monster pep rallies usually held at the Kingdome, feature inspirational speeches from top company execs; in buzzword bingo you're electronically issued a bingo card inscribed with Microjargon and industry catch phrases deemed likely to crop up in the day's orations, and every time one of your buzzwords is spoken you get credit. Overzealous players have been known to leap up in the middle of a speech and proclaim "Bingo!". © Ken Barnes	A convergence between wordwatch and school culture. The language of the "suits" is often so predictable that it could easily be produced by computers, suitably programmed...

Microspeak: geeks' pastimes

Buzzword Bingo: Deeply, perhaps uniquely cynical pastime, a competition taking place at company meetings. The meetings, essentially monster pep rallies usually held at the Kingdome, feature inspirational speeches from top company execs; in buzzword bingo you're electronically issued a bingo card inscribed with Microjargon and industry catch phrases deemed likely to crop up in the day's orations, and every time one of your buzzwords is spoken you get credit. Overzealous players have been known to leap up in the middle of a speech and proclaim "Bingo!".

A convergence between wordwatch and school culture. The language of the "suits" is often so predictable that it could easily be produced by computers, suitably programmed...

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