John,
> I'm not against neologisms or even (on occasion) the verbing of nouns.
There have been some really great new words coined
over the last 25 years:
Some of my favorites:
dog-whistle politics
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To present your message so that only your supporters hear it properly
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_politics
frankenstack
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http://dotneverland.blogspot.com/2008/03/bride-of-frankenstack.html
A unified framework of many frameworks put together.
Basically goo trying to make a whole bunch of third
party frameworks talk to each other in an attempt
to create a cohesive architecture.
J2EE developers who hop over to Spring enamoured by the
possibility of the POJO and Spring create an App server
using Spring are especially adept at creating FrankenStacks.
metrosexual
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An urban dandy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrosexual
Metrosexual man, the single young man with a high
disposable income, living or working in the city
(because that's where all the best shops are),
is perhaps the most promising consumer market of
the decade. In the Eighties he was only to be found
inside fashion magazines such as GQ, in television
vertisements for Levi's jeans or in gay bars. In the
Nineties, he' everywhere and he's going shopping.
simplexity
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http://www.artima.com/intv/simplexity.html
"Simplification" that makes something harder to understand.
Anders Hejlsberg:
When you take something incredibly complex and try to
wrap it in something simpler, you often just shroud the
complexity. You don't actually design a truly simple
system. And in some ways you make it even more complex,
because now the user has to understand what was omitted
that they might sometimes need. That's simplexity. So
to me, simplicity has to be true, in the sense that the
further down you go the simpler it gets. It shouldn't
get more complicated as you delve down."
