In een of andere nieuwsbrief (sorry voor de bronvermelding, maar ik weet echt niet meer waar ik deze gehaald had) vond ik deze "Essential Additions to Workplace Vocabulary"
BLAMESTORMING: Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.
SEAGULL MANAGER: A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on
everything, then leaves.
ASSMOSIS: The process by which some people seem to absorb success and
advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.
SALMON DAY: The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream
only to get screwed and die in the end.
MOUSE POTATO: The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch potato.
SITCOM: Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What yuppies
turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home
with the kids.
STARTER MARRIAGE: A short-lived first marriage that ends in divorce with
no kids, no property and no regrets.
STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and
whiny.
SWIPED OUT: An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because
the magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.
PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the heck out of an
electronic device to get it to work again.
ADMINISPHERE: The rarefied organizational layers beginning just above the
rank and file. Decisions that fall from the adminisphere are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve.
OHNOSECOND: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a BIG mistake.
Tijdens de EACI-conferentie in Polen was ik ook bij de geboorte van een nieuw woord: nearling Waaraan denk je als je het leest? Hoe proeft het op je lippen?Het is misschien leuk om zelf eerst een defintie te geven vooraleer hier te gaan kijken wat de makers ervan in gedachten hadden...
Verwoed uitvinder van nieuwe woorden is Mark Raison. In zijn Dictionnaire improbable de la Créativité vind je een hele verzameling. Dit wordt wellicht binnenkort ook in boekvorm uitgegeven.. Veel leesplezier.