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echo: osdebate
to: Rich
from: Adam
date: 2006-07-03 21:59:50
subject: Re: Productizing

From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Rich wrote:
>    Obscure to whom?  Even you understood it?
>


I understand that the aim of the language is to obscure.

Make up a word (or even a series of words), say it with authority &
people will nod sagely & pretend to understand. It's a very old trick.
It used to be referred to as pompo-verbosity

Adam

> Rich
>
>
>     "Adam" <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the
>     
field.near the bridge">
>     wrote in message news:44a641eb{at}w3.nls.net...
>     Rich wrote:
>     >    I commented only on the incorrect and silly assertion that a
>     > discussion of productizing technology is double speak.
>     >
>
>     It is language designed to obscure.
>
>     It's to give people the feeling as they walk away that something is
>     happening to WinFS & that they understand what that thing is where the
>     truth is no where near that.
>
>     Adam

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