discovery

While doing my marketing homework I ran across this sentence:

"One source compared the workplace to a swiftly flowing river clogged with the flotsam and jetsam called data..."

wait.

what?

I was under the impression that flotsam and jetsam were these guys?

Dictionary.com to the rescue.

(we don't own a Websters yet...)

flotsam [flot-suhm]

noun

1. the part of the wreckage of a ship and its cargo found floating in the water

2. material or refuse floating on the water

jetsam [jet-suhm]

noun

unwanted material or goods that have been thrown overboard from a ship

Check.

Learned something new today.