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OK, a quick rule of thumb: If you can assign a value to it (like a book title), it ain't meta-data.
Meta-data just tells you what it is -- wild e.g. "The title is the name used to identify the book".
You can't assign values to it, because it is what it is*.
* I always wanted to use that phrase in a way that made real sense.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Used to work somewhere the boss said "ASP dot C sharp". Learning to stifle my laughter was just easier than trying to correct him.
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Ask them how Java and JavaScript are related 
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Heard a professor in IT once claim that you could very easily convert C# to JavaScript, since both were object-languages
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Well, he wasn't far wrong.
I mean C# is an object language, and javascript is an objectionable one.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The same mother(f---)
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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People are so picky!
Validate obviously means the same as verify because they both start with a "V".
Before you know it, we'll have some pedantic techie claiming that Javascript isn't the same thing as Java ...
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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It is certainly not just the management - we are not very good at it ourselves. There are several cases where abuse of terms has become so widespread that the definition of the terms has changed.
Take "broadband": Nowadays, it is commonly used for a "high bandwidth" network. Go 40 years back, and there was "baseband" vs. "broadband", broadband being an FDM network. My university campus ran all commnication over a 60 channel Sytek broadband network, each channel something similar to an IP subnet. For its day, it had an enormous capacity; if my memory is correct, the cable carried 20 Mbps * 60 = 1,2 Gbps.
Take "internet": In my student days, an internet connected a heterogeenous collection of networks, with different addressing schemes, network protocols etc. Read RFC 791: IMPs are gateways between a local network and other networks. The RFC states explicitly that the local network has its own, arbitrary addressing and protocol; the IMP maps this to the IP used between networks. Nowadays, The Internet is one very definitite network protocol and adressing scheme, running not between networks, not even between nodes, but between processes!
Do any of you raise your eyebrow when shown a computing center machine room with a hundred PCs? Huh? Personal computers?
Do you laught when someone refers to a "core dump"? Have you ever touched a real core? (I have got a couple of frames; young computerists are really fascinated when they see it!)
There are the slang term, such as "ping" being a quality of a connection. "What's the ping to the London office?"
I could go on for quite a while with similar examples, where we are twisting the language around, frequently in ways that are laughable to those who know the true meaning of the words. Until the true meaning of the word is changed to the previously erroneous meaning of it.
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Back in the 80's I worked for a defense contractor. My boss was a wonderful woman who handled customers really well, and stayed out of the tech folks' way. It wasn't until after you got to know her that you realized she didn't have the faintest clue what she was talking about if the conversation went the least bit technical.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I take extra care to ensure, stakeholders of this type are never left to feel uncomfortable on the conversation. Many times, I had taken a pause to tell them - ("I could explain you how this works, after the call"). Just to free the person and the other parties from an ambiguous situation, during the call.
Full Reset
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If the video doesn't show a moonwalking duck, I'm not opening it! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Take a guess at what it shows.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Well, I decided to give it a chance (15 minutes ago) - but the video is still loading.
It really IS slow as duck! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Allegedly his doctor was a quack.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I'm not sure. Coming back as a duck might be an upgrade and not a punishment.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Well, at least in this incarnation, any bad press will be like water off his back.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Actor single-handedly holding back diamonds for departed manager (3, 7, 3)
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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The Special One ?
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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It is, indeed, the special one.
Actor - THESP
Single-handedly - ALONE
Holding back diamonds = ECI (ICE reversed)
Added together = THE SPECIAL ONE = fired manager (The Special One being the self-adopted title of Jose Mourinho, who has just been fired from some minor north-English football club).
Sorry if the clue was a bit UK/Europe biased but I couldn't resist a gloat and hey, had any passing Australian suggested "scrotum" as an answer, he'd have been right. 
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Nice clue even though I thought if I win today that would be my theme tomorrow  - never mind I'll have to think of something else
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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And there I was thinking it was Big Scrotum Bag. A bit of redundancy never hurt no one.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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