Business Week: The New Economy’s
Business Week: The New Economy's New LingoOf the thousands of words added to the language over the past century, the New Economy has added its fair share already -- from bitmap to cyberspace to dot-com to edutainment. The current decade may set a record for jargon and acronym overload. It isn't merely that throngs of new biotech, telecom, and Internet terms will enter the English lexicon. Abstract business-speak can also take on several meanings -- or new ones overnight -- From Silicon Valley to Wall Street, words are entering English so rapidly that even dictionary publishers are struggling to keep up.
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