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It's interesting to watch how, in a big tech project, a director or architect will occasionally start using a word like "corpus", "idempotent", "assert", etc. and it will trickle down the layers of the team. By the time the keypunch guy is using it, it's gone out of fashion, like last year's suit.


Knowing this, it's fun to purposely mispronounce words to see if it will catch on...


Go all the way IMO: make up the words and see if they catch on.




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