| benjamin on Sat, 25 Aug 2007 16:43:37 +0200 (CEST) |
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| Re: <nettime> language virus |
On 24 Aug 2007, at 22:33, David Mandl wrote: > > Hi Keith-- > > I don't see anything special about that phrase. I think it's just > one example of a well-known (and growing) phenomenon where people > choose an obscure, wordy, pretentious, or impressive-sounding (usually > Latinate) phrase in preference to a simple (usually Anglo- Saxon) > one. as a writer, (self-proclaimed) student of linguistics and english teacher i would have to fully agree. something which could be considered - the general tendency in british english, towards reducing verbal communication towards an absolute minimum. as opposed to the intellectual disposition. # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [email protected] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]