It's official, folks: We have a new "C"-word

About nine years ago, we were in the era of the "C"-word. The word collaboration was being overused by the marketing departments of CAD vendors, to the point that upFront.eZine and others began calling it the "C"-word -- a reflection of how sick we editors were from hearing it.

But as of Friday, we have a new "C"-word. Matt Lombard broke down and didn't write cloud in his blog posting, Working on a Model. Here is the first recorded use of someone from CAD media no longer being able to bear writing the word:

Talking about modeling is so much more fun and productive than talking about potential future screw-ups. The present has enough screw-ups for me. I'm trying to break out of this crazy c___d spiral that we're stuck in...

I suppose the only thing good about cloud is that so many puns can be made of it -- unlike, say collaboration.

Here is a brief list of overused and outworn CAD marketing buzz words of the last decade or so. (Caution: you may shudder while reading them.)

• object-oriented

• collaboration
  
  Web-enabled

• PLM

• cloud

Comments

[Dave Ault]

Here is another related "C" word. Cloud Refined Advanced Processing or CRAP for short, an appropriate description of the whole sorry mess.

[twitter.com/kcflatlander]

"Robust" is another one. Coffee is robust....unsure I want my software described that way