- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 09:25:42 -0800
- To: "Yvette P. Hoitink" <y.p.hoitink@heritas.nl>
- Cc: "'Web Content Accessibility Guidelines'" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
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 -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://kynn.com Chief Technologist, Idyll Mountain http://idyllmtn.com Author, CSS in 24 Hours http://cssin24hours.com Shock & Awe Blog http://shock-awe.info Inland Anti-Empire Blog http://inlandantiempire.org
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