Speaking with a friend of mine via the venerable AIM internet teletype service, we got to speaking about the computer acronym SAN (Storage Area Network). As per usual, I throw that term into Google. I pull up various and sundry unrelated links, but do see a “Sponsored Link” on the side for Broadcom — a network microchip manufacturer. The text of said “Sponsored Link” is as follows:
SAN Solutions
Free e-Book download: “Architecting Next-Generation Networks.”
www.broadcom.com
Architect.
ArchitectING?
“What do architects do?” I wonder aloud. They clearly don’t fricking ARCHITECT. They DESIGN, but they sure aren’t ARCHITECTING all damn day long. Man. I swear. I know that our beloved English language has morphed into what it is by relatively similar idiot moves, but here is to hoping that this unfortunate mutation of turning nouns into verbs gets EVOLUTIONED into EXINCTIONING itself.
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I even noticed that you said you threw that term into Google, rather than saying you “googled” it, as everyone else seems to say. Bravo!
and I think “google” makes a fine verb.
“after googling around for a bit …”
“penny, google that”
“… so I googled the bitches name and found pics of her fucking her dog!!”
works for me :-)
najati
language is nothing more than a bunch of mutations of other words/sounds. However, I think that when trying to put something reputable together, perhaps one would want to err on the side of caution, especially if there is already another, legitimate, word to express what you are trying to say. But, I’m no purist and don’t see any need to Frenchify the English language. There are other, more offensive, words that I would like to see extinction themselves into oblivion. But, I’ll not suffocation myself waiting. And no, I’m not knocking the French. Their language, they can stalemate it as much as they want.