Remember last year I was complaining about how the word ‘impact’ has diseased our language? It’s gone so far now that it’s even replacing familiar and useful words. Here’s a snippet of the opening paragraph from an Azure broadcast:
... – your prices for Windows Azure are not impacted Do they mean increased, decreased, modified, altered, affected, influenced or what? Even Wikipedia articles are now filling up with impacts. Pretty soon we’ll all be talking like Orwell’s 1984 where the impactfulness of impacts will impact us all and it will be doubleplus ungood. Sheesh! Greg
