Good post!

But Rands - you yourself are in the habit of coining wacky new names for things which have perfectly good names already. I spotted at least a dozen examples in "Managing Humans".

The difference, of course, is that the glossary of Randspeak never makes it to meme level, and so is merely amusing, rather than irritating.

Still, after I read a few times "An X is a bla bla bla..." and then gradually coming to the conclusion that bla bla bla is actually what I have always known as Y, some of the ethos rather leaked out of the Rands rhetorical balloon and I found myself losing faith. A kettle is a kind of pot, I suppose.

But worse is when a perfectly good name begins to be used for something totally different, like 'R&B' now appears to mean 'Soul'. For some reason, this infuriates me even more than stuff like 'Cloud computing'.

Well.. back to my 'hipster PDA'.