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#115637 - 11/11/03 06:49 AM What's the buzz?
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Registered: 12/01/00
Posts: 13667 Is buzzword a buzzword?
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#115638 - 11/11/03 07:51 AM Re: What's the buzz?
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Registered: 01/18/01
Posts: 13858 I have the impression that a "buzzword" is a relatively new coinage, popular with a somewhar small group. Since "buzzword" been in use for several years and is widely known, it is not longer a buzzword.
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#115639 - 11/11/03 09:00 AM Re: What's the buzz?
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Loc: Louisville, Kentucky buzz.word (buz´wûrd) n. A usually important-sounding word or phrase used primarily to impress laypersons.
buzz.whack.er (buz´wak er) n. A person who receives some degree of pleasure in bursting the bubbles of the pompous.
http://www.buzzwhack.com/
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#115640 - 11/11/03 06:31 PM Re: What's the buzz?
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Registered: 09/30/01
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Loc: Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... The buzzword of all buzzwords, of course is:
onomatopoeia
Please do not ask me to explain my thinking. You either get it or you don't.
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#115641 - 11/11/03 07:08 PM Re: What's the buzz?
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Registered: 03/13/01
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Loc: Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... Thanks for the endomusia, Faldo.
"What's the buzz?
Tell me what's a-happenin'!
What's the buzz?
Tell me what's a-happenin!
What's the buzz?
Tell me what's a-happenin'?
What's the buzz?
Tell me what's a-happenin'?"
"Why should you want to know...?"
--Jesus Christ Superstar, Weber/Rice
(endomusia rather than earworm, 'cause, actually, I kinda like that piece)
(and, yeah, I know this Q&A, so sue me)
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#115642 - 11/11/03 07:36 PM Re: What's the buzz?
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Registered: 07/20/03
Posts: 3230
Loc: Te Ika a Maui Jesus Christ Superstar, Weber/Rice
Now, there's a long distance collaboration - "Timmy, it's me, I'm Carl, I've come home, I'm so cold, let me in at your window."
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