Talk:List of buzzwords/Archives/2013

Cisgendered and Edgy

I believe both cisgendered and edgy should be added to this list as their usage has been rapidly increasing over the last while. - Anon — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.99.33.157 (talk) 05:16, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

Cisgendered, despite its use frequently indicating membership in a particular subcultural, has a specific meaning & cannot be "tacked on" like buzzwords like "Agile", "turnkey" or "2.0". How is edgy a buzzword? 12.11.149.5 (talk) 18:02, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

Do these qualify?

Having a quick look under the "Science and Technology" section, I'm struck by how many of the words listed there are words with definite, purposeful meanings. ie not pointless words just used purely to impress. It's not solely that section, but that one in particular. Do they really count as buzz-words if they have a definite, specific meaning and can't just be thrown anywhere without taking into account that meaning? eg HTML5 is a specific WC3 standard (you couldn't just throw in "HTML5" into a product description without having the product adhere to that standard) and download has the specific meaning of transferring data from a remote system to a client/local system. Hanii (talk) 04:34, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

I understand what you are saying but words like HTML5 are buzzwords because they are used by people who don't know what they mean. It helps make their products buzzword compliant Bhny (talk) 05:35, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

Example of HTML5 as a buzzword: "The developer replaced our old Flash image carousel with an HTML5 one!" developer: "no... it's just plain old HTML & Javascript, nothing '5' about it." In this case it's being used as a buzzword (original research disclosure: this happened to me). With regards to "download" however, I fully agree. That should be removed until someone can provide an example of download being used as a buzzword. 12.11.149.5 (talk) 17:56, 18 April 2013 (UTC)