RE: (Slight) HUMOUR: Banned Words

[John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

A word doesn't have to be mainstream for it to still be a word. How
many times do you use quantum in day to day conversation? Chances are
that if you don't have a PhD in physics, you don't use it every day,
yet would anyone dispute that it is a legitimate word?

I though the problem was with words that are made up. A word such as
prepend is not "made up", it is simply used in a very limited
situation.

Notice in the example at the end of this post, it was used by a
programmer.


--- edunn -at- transport -dot- bombardier -dot- com wrote:
> 
> 
> ah hem... John?
> All of your examples are mathematical and jargon based. Exactly the
> iluminated
> sources of languagemangling most are complaining about.
> Funnily enough, the symantec page is a virus definition.
> I suspect that's how many on this list view these words.
> 
> Eric L .Dunn
> 
> ;-)
> 
> 
> 
> ah hem...Margaret?  Sometimes it is
> 
> http://www.ncsc.dni.us/fun/user/tcc/euphoria/prepend.htm
> http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/p/prepend.html
> http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/html.prepend.html
> http://www.mathematica.co.kr/mathcomm/20_definitionviz/prepend.html
> 
> > After a lot of years my favorite is still "prepend." This came
> from
> > a programmer I worked with. His reasoning was if "append" means
> to
> > put at the end, then "prepend" must mean to put at the beginning.
> >
> > Wouldn't it be nice if language was that logical.;)


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