On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[email protected]>wrote:
> Udhay Shankar N [21/01/10 11:51 +0530]: > > One one sense, you're right. The way I heard it, the very cheap >> truck/vehicle Suresh is referring to above was actually called a >> "jugaad" and the generic usage of the word for any hack of this nature >> came later. >> >> Any modern-day Hobsons or Jobsons care to confirm this? >> > > That (cheap truck) is the most common usage - but trying to find etymology > for this is very chicken and egg indeed. As the management prof said in > businessweek, it gets called "good old yankee ingenuity" when farmers turn > their model T into a tractor or hay baler. > And now, of course, the word is the latest "buzzword"....I am sometimes irritated by this need to encapsulate every concept into one word or three..and then have it as a quiz question where that word or phrase has to be explained. I think these terms are coined by quiz buffs so they can have their fodder.... Before anyone goes up in smoke, I am a bit of a QB myself. Not a serious one, I can laugh.... Deepa.
