There are many definitions of the term Chutzpah- my gran’s description of someone with chutzpah is “a person who kills his parents and then asks for the court’s mercy becasue he’s an orphan.” I wish I could pit Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer against gran – she would have taken him apart.
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Chutzpah by any other name
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What digital divide?!
Posted: by Rudy Nadler-Nir in Anthrodigital, Archetypes, Narratives, So satisfying, TheoriesTags: Android, Bill Bryson, Buzzwords, Cellphone, cellphones, Chrome, digital divide, digital existence, international submarine communications cables, iPhone, Linux, mobile phone subscribers, Nokia, Patrick Henry, Population Division, Portio Research Mobile Factbook, satellite technologies, Symbian, total world population
Catchphrases help us hold our intellectual head up high, socially. We can use buzzwords and Catchphrases as a mark of our understanding, our expertise, insight, intuition and general intellectual prowess. Some catchphrases were not really uttered but simply invented – – and then carried through the ages, delivered diligently from eager sender to ecstatic receiver. [...]