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'Embedded' named as word of the year

😛 😛 😛 this reminds me of an article I read in a design mag a few years ago, titled 'Bullsh*t Bingo' about creatives 'verbose' tendencies 😱 😛 😛

If I get a spare 5, I'll scan it in and post it... 😉
 
Originally posted by iGAV
😛 😛 😛 this reminds me of an article I read in a design mag a few years ago, titled 'Bullsh*t Bingo' about creatives 'verbose' tendencies 😱 😛 😛

If I get a spare 5, I'll scan it in and post it... 😉
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haha...I'd love to see that...

I still sometimes confuse the hell out of people when I type 5M rather than 5,000. 😛
 
Originally posted by eyelikeart
haha...I'd love to see that...

I still sometimes confuse the hell out of people when I type 5M rather than 5,000. 😛
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That is a good find eyelikeart, thank you. I also liked the top phrases that they chose: "Shock-and-awe," the phrase the U.S. military used to describe the type of campaign it would wage in Iraq, topped other Iraq-related terms like "rush to war," "weapons of mass destruction" and "spider-hole" as the top phrase of 2003.

I'm still just a little confused eyelikeart, to me 5M would mean 5 million. When you typed the 5,000, that means 5 thousand. 😛
 
Originally posted by eyelikeart
haha...I'd love to see that...

I still sometimes confuse the hell out of people when I type 5M rather than 5,000. 😛
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Especially when they expect 5,000 to be 5k, of course my Roman numeral convertor is broken so I can't check how M + M + M + M + M is written.
 
It started as an adjective, moved to verb then noun. It's a ghastly word, one that we should immediately dump. I think the Fox News think tank members (<-oxymoron!) should be destroyed. (Along with 80% of their hosts)
 
Numediaspeak

Originally posted by eyelikeart
haha...I'd love to see that...

I still sometimes confuse the hell out of people when I type 5M rather than 5,000. 😛
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your wish is my....
 
Originally posted by wdlove
The article made a lot of sense, most I have heard before when ordering a print job. Now I have learned something new today that 5M is 5 thousand. Hopefully it's trivia that I can remember! 😉
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Indeed that article was intresting.

Tho I doubt printers get things in groupings of 500 that is way to large.

😀
 
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