Seymour Cray never said &quot;performant&quot;.  Engineers say &quot;fast&quot; or &quot;fast enough&quot;.  Marketing types and nontechnical management seem to prefer this neologism.  But it might also be a generational thing.<p>A new coinage that I noticed in the past year that also grates on my ears: &quot;learning&quot; as a substitute for &quot;lesson&quot;, as in &quot;what were your learnings from the hackathon?&quot;  Anyone else caught this one?