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

[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