RE: disintermediation -- was RE: (Slight) HUMOUR: Banned Words

["Secara, Maggie" <Maggie -dot- Secara -at- indymacbank -dot- com>]

It's one thing to coin a word where a need exists, it's another to fracture
a word to create another, because you THINK that's the actual word.  It may
be lack of education, it may be any number of things.  No, it doesn't make
anyone evil but it isn't really the same as purposeful invention.

And too often, a word like "disintermediation" (or god save us,
reintermediation--recovering from having been intermediated) seem to come
from a desparate need to get a concept into one word when a few well chosen
words would be fine.  Less isn't always more.  Sometimes less is
obfuscating, or just ridiculous.  

Objecting to ignorance, not to invention.


Maggie Secara

-----Original Message-----
From: RUBOTTOM, AL [mailto:ARUBOTTOM -at- SENSORMATIC -dot- COM]
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 12:33 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: disintermediation -- was RE: (Slight) HUMOUR: Banned Words


hey, are we a buncha pointy-headed TWs who can't recognize or accept the
landscape of living language for what it is?
"disintermediation" is just another term in fairly widespread use ,,, you
don't have to use it or like it.
find another to convey the same sense if you prefer.  also doesn't mean
those who coined it are evil, stupid or unethical;
they just adopted or coined a term for a relatively well-known,
well-accepted & specific use.
[deleting several interesting citations for Lyris's sake]

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