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Cybertalk rubbing you the wrong way?
- June 22, 2007 8:06 AM |
- By Paul Jay
by Shirley Connor, CBC News
A poll published Thursday cites "netiquette," "cookie" and "wiki" as words that grate on the nerves of web surfers. But the grand prize winner is "folksonomy."
Quick, know what that means?
It's the name for a web classification system, but apparently not a popular term among those surveyed by the British YouGov pollsters. The 2,091 adults surveyed didn't much like "cookie," "blog," or "blook" much either.
Which words make you, to use their terms -- wince, shudder or want to bang your head on the keyboard?
Nominations are now open.
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Comments (4)
I wish we could add words to vocabularies, without losing the perfectly good words that help convey more robust ideas.
But that's happening. There are verb tenses that people can no longer decipher, they 'hear' other than what is intended.
English grows, & we should, too.
Why is 'ignorance' (best typified by the continuing Bush Administration) tolerated in societies? It is simply laziness, right? or is it something more?
Nerenberg had a clever documentary, Stupidity. I can't recommend it more heartily. If we don't use words, how do we expect to communicate across the divides of culture, society & time?
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While I wholeheartedly agree that the English language is degrading, deteriorating and suffering intense detriment, allow me the opportunity to play Devil's Advocate momentarily.
In an Orwellian sense, we are limited only by the limits of our diction. To be a linguistic purist is to censor ideas and have only a set vocabulary be accepted. It becomes newspeak. An artistically-nonsensical and emotionless language.
Perhaps we should avoid voting which of the new words we so loathe, and instead decide which broaden our horizons.
That, to me, seems double-plus-good.
"Pwned" has got to be the worst piece of cyber-speak, and possibly the worst "word" ever. It's idiot-slang for "owned," originating from some computer game where a ham-fisted programmer misspelled "owned."
It looks stupid, it sounds stupid, so it must be stupid.
The only thing I dislike about it is how "lol" and tildes have apprently become punctuation marks.
Example?
hey~ lol
Yo
how r u lol
Why're you laughing so much?
wtf
Doesn't lol mean laugh(ing) out loud?
ya but it doesn't have to~ lol
That's my gripe. That, and adding numbers to words.
Frankly, I use "pwn'd" waaaay too much to dislike it.