jargon rejection pile

Posted on June 12th, 2007 by Scraps.
Categories: Words, Badness.

Today's wretched neologism in my work email: webinar.

7 comments.

LauraJMixon

Comment on June 12th, 2007.

Yes. I heard this one a lot, during my engineering consulting days.

LauraJMixon

Comment on June 12th, 2007.

But the technology itself is cool, I must say.

Debbie

Comment on June 12th, 2007.

As Laura says, that one's been around a long time in internet years.

The one that's driving me nuts currently is the redefinition of "actionable" to mean "something you can do," as in the book published by another division of my company, Actionable Web Analytics

Scraps

Comment on June 12th, 2007.

There sure seems to be a lot of cool technology desperately in need of decent nomenclature.

Debbie, that's awful. What a recipe for disastrous confusion.

LauraJMixon

Comment on June 12th, 2007.

Debbie, AAAAAAAA........ That's pretty bad.

MoXmas

Comment on June 12th, 2007.

Actually, I use actionable all the time, in the secondary sense: "Relating to or being information that allows a decision to be made or action to be taken."

That is, I'm trying to tell some marketing guy why his print ad done as a web page isn't working and I'll fall into saying something like "We need to make the page actionable. What should the user DO at this point?"

I haven't started abusing "utilize" yet, though.

And while "webinar" sounds nasty, at least it is roughly comprehensible.

nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez

Comment on June 15th, 2007.

webinar. spanish infinitive: "to web."

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