my eyes... the goggles do nothing

[rone]

juhachristensen asks:

Does anyone have a better suggestion that can replace the awkward word Servicization?

Comments

[pobig.livejournal.com]

May I suggest "servisceration".

[wisn.livejournal.com]

I refuse to notice a word when my first awareness of it is through a complaint about it.

[wisn.livejournal.com]

And where does that 'My eyes...' meme come from? It's gone from 0 to ubiquitous on my awareness meter in the past three weeks.

[ltempt.livejournal.com]

How about *blam* *blam* *blam* *splat*?

[mrbalihai.livejournal.com]

the goggles do nothing

I keep reading this as, "the Googles do nothing."

[stabs brain repeatedly with fork]

Didn't work for me

[vardissakheli.livejournal.com]

with the new autoantonymic use of "stakeholder." I started hearing it on Marketplace a couple months after manfire pointed it out. By that time it had already been entrenched for years.

[jwgh]

It's from The Simpsons.

[jwgh]

How do you feel about the word 'netroots'?

Serves the geeks right.

[vardissakheli.livejournal.com]

Perhaps, if they'd been a bit more rigorous with their tree metaphors over the years, "root" might have a less confusing meaning today. We also wouldn't be stuck using an annoying pronunciation of "route" to distinguish between the two.

Suppose it had turned out that we more commonly used "trunk" to refer to the central core of a data or control structure. The ambiguity would then be far more amusing when we talked about what was "in the trunk."

Re: Serves the geeks right.

[baljemmett.livejournal.com]

What does the term "netroot" have to do with tree metaphors? [I'd never heard the term before, but it appears to be by analogy with grassroot...] I'm confused.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

The what now? Let me go look.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

You know, i thought it was dumb but not painfully so at first, but then i ran into this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netroots):

Through events like a blogswarm, the netroots displays non-hierarchical and decentralized features.

Now i'm in full-blown DESTROY ALL INFIDELS mode.