Post by Mark on Jan 18, 2010 23:02:38 GMT 1
Well, new words do have their place. Hovercraft, for example was only put into the dictionary in the 50's (?) after Sir Christopher Cockerell invented it. Internet is a very new word of course. However, words and phrases such as Newbie, thinking outside the box, taking a helicopter view, and other such buzz phrases and only used by people who either think it's clever to make up stupid phrases, or (more likely) who's vocabulary is so limited that they don't know the real words for what they are trying to say. (like, Newcomer, radical thinking, taking an overview of the situation). The worrying thing is that these semi-illiterate business men are running the countries business and banks !
'blog' I believe is a contraction of Web Log. I believe the traditional word is Diary ?
OK, who's next for the soap box ?
'blog' I believe is a contraction of Web Log. I believe the traditional word is Diary ?
OK, who's next for the soap box ?
