>PS: I really used real scissors and real glue to cut and paste text, so >I'm having less problems with metaphors, but I think most metaphors are >just wrong (I need to learn what they do, and then maybe I learn later >what it was the origin). We are supposed to make computer easy, but we >use odd concepts. [You may see in Quora or on other fora how young >people are confused on our metaphors].
…and people who find themselves cool keep inventing new metaphors. I see (and fight) this almost daily at my oh-so-agile workplace. My pet peeve, which I got successfully banned recently, was "post mortem", a meeting in an incident response cycle. The shit hit the fan when we held a "post mortem" about a mistake by a collegue that caused data loss, on the day of this very colleague's *actual funeral*, and *noone even noticed what we were doing*. In short: It is not only terms invented by people that are now old and grey, but also new terms by people who want to play cool. Stop that - give things names that just tell what they literally are, and that's it! -nik (now going to fight "grooming" meetings in his "cyber" company)
