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Subject:So you call yourself an architect? From:Richard Goldberger <RGOLDBER -at- mobius -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 7 May 2001 17:38:10 -0400
Hey folks-
Did anyone catch William Safire's On Language column in the New York Times
magazine this week? The article discussed the spread of specialist terms
into everyday vocabulary, where, to the intense irritation of some
stuffy-sounding intellectuals, they tend to be misused. One example involves
the use of 'architect'. Here are some excerpts:
"I am very annoyed at the current use of the term 'architect'. Examples
include 'architect of the peace plan', 'software architect', and in the
phrase spoken by several CEOs and commentators on CNBC, 'we rearchitected
the software'."
and
"It is particularly galling to perform an Internet search for 'architect'
only to find thousands of references having nothing to do with the
traditional meaning of the word."
And in particular:
"The magazine Architectural Record recently interviewed Richard Saul Wurman,
who said "I invented the term 'information architect' in 1975, when I was
national chairman of the American Institute of Architects convention ... it
was called 'The Architecture of Information'. Now I would say that somewhere
between 20,000 and 100,000 people in the US have 'information architect' on
their business cards."
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