Hateful word of the day

[chickenfeet]

Can I just say that the word 'ontologizing' is vile and disgusting? It's bad enough that the IT world has hijacked 'ontology' to mean a controlled vocabulary crossed with an entity relationship diagram but to turn it into a verb is beyond unspeakable.

Comments

[dyddgu.livejournal.com]

Please help. I used the word "hegemonising" the other day. I feel soiled. Substitute words gratefully accepted.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I think you should translate the offending sentence into Welsh and then translate it back again

[topicaltim.livejournal.com]

As I believe they say in certain parts of North America, "there ain't no noun that can't be verbed".

[arcana-mundi.livejournal.com]

Those would be the suit-wearing parts.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

or the part wearing suits

[arcana-mundi.livejournal.com]

Hah.

And what's this business with the word "ain't" being considered mainstream amerkin? It's not even as common here as the "innit" thing is in the UK, as far as I can tell. It's like saying that all British people say "wot wot."

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

what what

[topicaltim.livejournal.com]

Gawd bless yer, Mary Poppins. Innit.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

This may well be true. May I suggest as an example "corried"; what happens to aging back row forwards who lack pace. It certainly happened to me!

[topicaltim.livejournal.com]

Age goes up = shirt number goes down. It's the law. Or at least a tradition, or old charter, or something.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Indeed! Although to be fair my shirt number stared at 2 in 1968 and has only gone back that low on comparatively rare occasions

[kittenexploring.livejournal.com]

I hate it when people start unspeakablising.

[metalana.livejournal.com]

Do tell how "ontologizing" was used... Forewarned is forearmed.
(Last week I wrote a blurb about what you might really need when someone has turned you on to ontologies: a thesaurus or a data model, most likely.)

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

In this case it was, I think, a rules engine being applied to data coming in from different sources to determine what the possible valid uses for the data were. So a mother could be the parent of a diabetic child who takes insulin but a child could not be the parent of a diabetic insulin who takes mother.

[forthright.livejournal.com]

I ... I don't know what to say. What in the hell is 'ontologizing'? What is 'ontology' outside of philosophy? I am sooooo behind the times on the latest technobabble, clearly.

[owlfish]

Clearly, it's the process of making something ontologized; although that only works if it's ontologizable in the first place. I wonder if there's a test to determine something's degree of ontologizability?

[ironed_orchid]

I shudder in sympathy.

[gale_storm]

I'm in ur dictionary verbing ur nounz.

[krustukles.livejournal.com]

Thanks for explaining the IT definition. I had a tech person start talking aobut ontologies and as a former epistemologist, was totally confused. (Then he got talking about "developing ontologies" and I was like um, by definition, can you really develop an ontology per se?)

I await the day I hear "Ontogenizing is phylogenizing on a recapitular go-forward basis."

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

What's really funny is that most of the people who bang on about ontologies in the IT world have no idea that the word has another meaning.

[anneth.livejournal.com]

Just remember: it's not the verbing that weirds words; it's the renounification.