RE: (Slight) HUMOUR: Banned Words

["Jane Carnall" <jane -dot- carnall -at- digitalbridges -dot- com>]

Jessica Nealon asks:
>By the way, what do all of you think the motivation is to create these
crazy
>words.  What's wrong with the words we have?  The odd part is that these
>words are usually created by people who have no affinity for language.
>Those of us that do just use the words we have.  Why do you think that is?

For each of the crazy words, there is normally already an existing word that
corresponds in meaning (as far as one can tell... what *does*
disintermediate mean?) to the invented word. An intelligent, literate person
(like us <g>) will use the existing word. An intelligent, illiterate person
(like your average programmer <g>) will invent a word by adding "un" or
"dis" or "in" to the word they want to reverse or change in meaning,
apparently unaware that they DON'T HAVE TO DO THAT.

Not that it bugs me or anything.

Jane Carnall
"I use a hammer, chisel, and stone tablets.  Customers like them because
they double as coffee tables. Although functions like spell check, Find, and
Replace sometimes give me problems. And really long documents are a real
pain. Also stone tables don't translate easily into HTML." - Wade Courtenay,
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