in reply to Web terminology

I think people have been unneccessarily rude to this poster, whose first language is obviously not English.

And "Technology" is a buzzword? That's ridiculous. The term gets used rather vaguely but it's not a buzzword.

However, I agree that it's impossible to understand exactly what the question is. And it doesn't seem like it's anything to do with Perl.

Dear Anonymous Monk.

Please ask your question again. Get someone to help you with your English if you need it. We don't understand what you're asking.


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Re^2: Web terminology
by spiritway (Vicar) on Feb 14, 2006 at 03:07 UTC

    From WordNet 2.0 :

    buzzword; n : stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition

    I think that would reasonably include "technology". Through overuse, the word is almost meaningless.

    Update:

    Phrase \Phrase\, n.:... 1. A brief expression, sometimes a single word, but usually two or more words forming an expression by themselves, or being a portion of a sentence; as, an adverbial phrase.

    stock adj 1: repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'"...

    From WordNet 2.0 again.

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      It's not "stock" and it's not a "phrase". The word is thousands of years old.

      If some people in some contexts use it in a shallow and meaningless way that doesn't make it into a buzzword.

      It may mean they're ignorant (they call a perl CGI script which uploads a JPG to a website 'upload technology' because they don't know what CGI, or perl or scripts are) or it may mean they're trying to baffle you with bullshit (they know perfectly well what it is, but they'd rather you thought of it as something mysterious and clever than something simple and commonplace).


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