MEGO
/me"goh/ or /mee'goh/ ["My Eyes Glaze Over", often "Mine Eyes Glazeth (sic)
Over", attributed to the futurologist Herman Kahn] Also "MEGO factor". 1. A
handwave intended to confuse the listener and hopefully induce agreement because
the listener does not want to admit to not understanding what is going on. MEGO
is usually directed at senior management by engineers and contains a high
proportion of TLAs. 2. excl. An appropriate response to MEGO tactics. 3. Among
non-hackers, often refers not to behaviour that causes the eyes to glaze, but to
the eye-glazing reaction itself, which may be triggered by the mere threat of
technical detail as effectively as by an actual excess of it.
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