The Friday Bun Society hereby declares that it does not condone invalid and just plain annoying uses of the word “meta”.
A good example of frivolous invalid usage is referring to some alternative view of a conceptual model as “meta-model”. Equally maligned is to claim that abstract concepts of such a conceptual model form a “meta-model”. (Reporting professionals and spec writers, we know where you live. No bun for you.)
Now, as far as annoying usage goes, The Friday Bun Society is fully aware that some people might consider that to be a matter of opinion. Those people would be wrong, because The Friday Bun Society is the self-appointed owner of The Ultimate Truth and therefore opinions of others hardly matter. (And because we own The Ultimate Truth, it doesn’t matter that we have appointed ourselves. We are Right. Next, please.)
So let us rewind a bit and try this again:
Now, as far as annoying usage goes, The Friday Bun Society is also very annoyed with people who think they are so clever that they can just give advices on how to use the word “meta”. Sometimes they even fall to self-deprecating humor while trying to desperately come up with some humor when there is none to be found. They write self-referencing posts to their weblogs and have nothing to say apart from clumsy wordplays with their non-native English language. They make the joke so obvious that not even the thickest mind could miss it. They write long, incoherent paragraphs and don’t know when to stop. It’s as if they’ve been sipping Merlot while writing! They don’t realize that while they condemn other people they just declare themselves guilty on the same deeds.
But of all the people inhabiting this globe, the worst are those who try to rise a step above the meta-level, complaining about meta-complaining. It’s one thing to complain about complaining but totally another to complain about someone who is complaining about complaining!
Those people! The nerve! They are definitely on The List when the revolution comes.