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.