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LOL I hate IT buzzwords. They make me sick to my stomach.

I don't think it's an IT buzzword... it must be a business buzzwords.  Down with buzzwords!

Oh ok, a business buzzword. I've never heard it in my life. LOL.

Probably has more to do with one's age than one's nationality. "End to end" is pretty "buzz-wordy". I persoanlly like the older idioms, they keep our heritage alive. But then again, I may be one of 'em!!!

Soup to nuts is not really any kind of buzzword, just an old American expression, something my southern mother would say. My 2d generation ABC gf absolutely hates all my cute little southern phrases/idioms because they never make any practical sense to her.

I'd also like to see the end of bizjargonese, but the cultural anthropologist/budding linguist in me somehow enjoys wikipedia'ing this stuff when I have free time. That said, I really don't have free time when I'm in the middle of meeting trying to figure out what someone just said.

I'm 1st gen ABC and while I get a lot of these idioms in context, the finer points of idioms like "soup-to-nuts" are a bit lost on me. It's like saying, "Shaka when the walls fell" to a non-Trekkie...there is no surer way of confusing people than speaking in idioms that are irrelevant to them. (Anyone whose seen that ST episode, however, will get why I quoted that. :)

Ease up dude. That's an old and very flavorful idiom. It's stuff like that that makes the language more fun. It refers to a meal that is complete, ie it starts with soup, goes through all the courses, and ends up with some nuts.