Trivial pursuit weirding language
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"First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing because verbing weirds language. Then they arrival for the nouns, and I speech nothing because I no verbs." Peter Ellis
"DOM it and upload it"
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Love it
Maybe this is why we may never have plain language input for computer programming. -
I don't remember when access was only a "thing".
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@chris fullmer said:
I don't remember when access was only a "thing".
Merriam-Webster - First known use [as verb] 1962!
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Thanks Chris, I was looking for that info yesterday and didn't know where to access it at.
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Continuing the pursuit ... what do members think about verbing professional titles, like architect in particular? To engineer something has always been OK since its gerund engineering is universally understood and properly defined. But to doctor something and doctoring has sinister inferences contrary to the Hippocratic Oath. I don't care if to lawyer or vicar something becomes part of the vernacular but I find to architect software sticks in the craw.
Architects have forever had unique responsibilities to Society and have been required to undergo study and practice in arts and sciences for a long period before being qualified to serve it. It seems to me there must be some idea 'look and feel' puts an architectural edge on otherwise superb engineering, that it somehow enhances Societal well-being. I find to ennoble software engineers with 'Chief Software Architect" unnecessary and distasteful, maybe even illegal.
More than this to architect something just sounds so uncouth.
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I generally agree with your comments on this matter. This is not about "elitist attitudes". It's about dilution of meaning in light of responsibilities to society.
Others would argue that it is just colloquial or informal language or (computer) industry jargon. Certainly, there are alternative terms that do not diminish the important work of Computer Software and Hardware Designers, Engineers, Scientists, Technicians.
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