You've got to love Barry Diller. Other veteran executives, terrified by a new wave of internet upstarts, are busy spouting all the jargon they can absorb from their young underlings. Not Diller. At a recent meeting, when one baby-faced exec tried to make not a point, but a metapoint, the IAC boss exploded: "What kind of birdbrain word is that?"

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