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12 April 2007 @ 03:51 pm
my ass is a summit.  
What's wrong with the word "meeting" ?
Why does everything have to be a 'summit' these days? Even if its just a handful of people?

The need to make things sound more grandiose than they are bothers me.

.. and don't get me started on the absurdity of 'mini-summit'.
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Pete Zaitcev[info]zaitcev on April 12th, 2007 08:21 pm (UTC)
I don't think the number of people has anything to do with it. When Reagan and Gorbatchev has met, it was a summit as well, with just 2 people.

A meeting carries a specific business subtext these days. You'd need to dillute it with "group meeting", "hacking meeting", "bar meeting", etc.
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Joe[info]mr_z on April 12th, 2007 08:26 pm (UTC)
I wonder what your local garbage-man^Wsanitation engineer thinks?
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ohh snap![info]purrmeow on April 12th, 2007 09:32 pm (UTC)
your ass is only a summit if you lie on your belly and stick your bum waay up in the air.
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Hubert Figuiere: digital[info]hub_ on April 13th, 2007 09:50 am (UTC)
You know that I'm attending the OpenOffice Team Summit currently?

You we call that summit while it is just a meeting.
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