Moreover, dot-coms — unlike bankers — do not spend their day engaged in face-to-face human contact — known in their culture as 'f2f' or 'facemail.'

Boeing and Microsoft each have their own corporate cultures and, as Eastside Journal columnist Patti Payne discovered, their own language. To help the uninitiated, Payne devoted two columns this week in the Bellevue newspaper to Microslang and Boeing-speak.

… A project that's going to take a huge amount of effort, time and resources.

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Facemail — Going into someone's office and actually talking to them, as opposed to e-mail.