Re: Examples of language changes in websites

On Thursday, December 4, 2003, at 01:45 AM, Yvette P. Hoitink wrote:
> The game is called "bullshit bingo", not "bovine excrements bingo" or
> another more acceptable term. Of course, it was never my intention to 
> offend
> anyone, I just called the game by it's regular name. I would never use 
> the
> word to reflect upon other people's ideas in a professional context.

FYI, another term for this game is "Buzzword Bingo", and may actually be
more common.  Compare:

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22bullshit+bingo%22&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
(5,130 hits)

with

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22buzzword+bingo%22&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
(9,450 hits)

The comic strip "Dilbert" helped to popularize the concept, which is
credited to Silicon Graphics founder Tom Davis:

http://www.wordspy.com/words/buzzwordbingo.asp

For an international audience including American readers, it would
make more sense to refer to "buzzword bingo" instead of "bullshit
bingo."

--Kynn

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Received on Thursday, 4 December 2003 12:27:00 UTC