Mark Languages grow in order to accommodate new requirements of people using them. If enough people find that they prefer to disparage reliance on "dead trees" in order to pass on information - or whatever other use there may be for paper - by use of a thoroughly respectable combination of two words taken from Ancient Greek, νεκρός (nekrós), "dead", and δενδρον (dendron), “tree”[1], and feel that "necrodendritic media" expresses their thoughts best, then "necrodendritic" will find its way into common usage and dictionaries, especially dynamic online ones, will pick the word up. That's the way round it works - unless you're French and subject to "L'Académie française"[2], of course.
Chris Mason [1] I know you know but this is for any who may not. [2] L'Académie française, institution créée en 1635, est chargée de définir la langue française. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Zelden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, 07 November, 2006 8:43 PM Subject: Re: Combine spool output datasets On Tue, 7 Nov 2006 12:23:58 -0600, Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Are you planning to browse the spool, or print to necrodendritic media? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I searched every online dictionary, ibm.com, google and the only reference I can find are other ibm-main posts from Paul. I know what it means, but is it a real word or a Paul-ism? :-) Even if it is a real word, why use it? Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - GITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS and OS390 expert at http://searchDataCenter.com/ateExperts/ Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
