Buzzwords of the Age

Ron Rosenbaum's "The Catchphrase of the Decade" discusses a host of clichés. Some of them still feel pretty good, but others have definitely seen happier days. My faves:

• banality of evil
• market research
• ecosystem (esp. when applied to unnatural phenomena)
• vote off the island
• -gate
• "Move along"
• 15 minutes of fame
• drill down
• the takeaway
• "What he said"
• "What planet are you from?"
• work-around
• game-changer
• outside the box
• in the weeds
• 2.0 (and 3.0)
• at the end of the day
• push-back
• "And your point is?"
• having said that

Roll the dice, string a few together, and you've got the punch line of a presentation, e.g., "At the end of the day, our market research indicates that the game-changer for this product's ecosystem is an outside-the-box work-around." Sorry about that ...

(cf. AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs (2002-08-28), ...) - ^z - 2010-02-13