On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Amol Hatwar > I wasn't at all talking of physical violence. Without
People have coined them as phrases to avoid !! One that I dug out... "Irritating phrases emerge from the intersection of technology and marketing like devils trooping out of Cocytus. “Bleeding edge” fills me with loathing for two reasons. One, it replaces the perfectly good dead metaphor “cutting edge.” We hear cutting edge far too often for it to mean what it says: that what it describes really resides on the sharp edge of technology as it slices into the tissue of the future. At least cutting edge doesn’t aim for the extreme, which brings me to my second point—"bleeding edge" (ostensibly a term of marketing and selling) conjures the unpleasant image of a blade biting into living flesh. Of course on a basic level the phrase doesn’t even make sense—the edge does not bleed; it bloodies itself in the body into which it cuts. So it combines vapidity, a lack of meaning, and a noisome association into one perfectly loathsome non-witticism." http://splicetoday.com/writing/stop-saying-these-phrases --------- The arguments in defense of these phrases, however, do not reach all those who might be irritated or those who are not prepared to take the risk of collaborating with the *users*. It would make a lot of sense to drop them altogether. -- CK Raju _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
