Hold on there Moose, while I do not disagree withanything in your first
quoted paragraph there is a fundamental difference between 1) the
development of new words for new concepts and 2) the mis-application of
existing words to existing concepts, and I think you may be in danger of
confusing them (hard as it is for me to believe that of you).
The second scenario above has as its result the "desertification" of
language, as it strips the mis-applied word of its original meaning, and
leaves the language without the nuance that the original word in its
original meaning had.
To put it into a photographic context, it is, to my mind, the equivalent of
shooting everything in JPEG format, because nobody can in practice tell the
difference. I think we do know different.
Piers
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From: Moose [mailto:olymoose@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 24 May 2010 00:35
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: Re: [OM] Nathan's PAD 22/5/2010: battle of ideas on the T
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Look at old English. Everything you write or say is a corruption, an
invention to accommodate new technology or an intrusion from another
language - usually itself corrupted.
Think about it, I'm sure that like me, you have words you know that were in
common use when you were younger, but that you neither use nor hear today.
Is "soft buttons", which you recommended yesterday in your dictionary?
Language is naturally growing and changing. The process of "friending"
on social networking sites, although partially analogous to making friends
in person, it is also different in significant ways, so a new word that
recognizes that seem to me to be appropriate. Like "steering wheel", "hard
drive" "fanjet", "email, the verb" and so on and on.
Ooooh, I just ran the spell checker, and it agrees with Andrew and Brian,
suggesting "befriending". But I agree with Andrew, it isn't really quite the
same thing. The physical technique and the social connotations are
different.
Moose
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