"Back in the day" -- that's right, that one's appeared on the radar screen recently too. With "granularity" and the others that Felicity mentions: I wonder how some words escape the software-and-computer biz corral and make it out into the larger culture. Are we just copping some 'tude -- using these words makes us all feel like edgy techies, or something? Or are the words actually useful in describing or evoking new-ish things? Interesting that, despite the crash, we're still looking to the tech biz for new slang...

Posted by: Michael Blowhard on August 9, 2003 01:31 AM

Hmmmmm. Is high tech taking over for the black community as a source of new slang? What exactly does that say about the perception of techies and their role in society? Marginal yet edgy?

Posted by: Friedrich von Blowhard on August 9, 2003 03:05 AM

Yup, "granularity" appears regularly in my biz. If Strunk and White were still around, I suspect that they'd be advising us to say "finer-grained" and "larger-grained" instead of at a smaller or large granularity.

Posted by: Will Duquette on August 9, 2003 12:39 PM

Ha ha Will, you a funny man.

I fourth or fifth that emotion - granularity has been mocked by jargon watchers in my neck of the woods for at least a decade.

Posted by: j.c. on August 10, 2003 05:54 PM






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