On 16 April 2010 16:49, Stephen Price <[email protected]> wrote: > Language is a living breathing thing that evolves and changes. Embrace the > change or go back to the original language before it began changing, banging > on rocks and pointing. Of course one could also argue that what follows the > phase of evolution and improvement is chaos, devolution and decay. (see l33t > speek and sms'ing/twitter abbreviation and how it corrupts language).
Which makes me wonder - if the so-called 'swear words' were normalised so they were no longer offensive, would the people in the world be less easily offended and reactive, and hence the world would be a better place? Although that is very 1984-ish... Back on topic, does any one have a good way to manage Win7 VHDs? Something that lets you create snapshots by creating differential VHDs would be nice. Maybe some kind of bootable WinPE with some custom GUI... I'd like something that boots quicker though... > besides what has dogfood got to do with using your own code, unless you are > writing software for pensioners? > > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> It's cool huh. I used to use this a lot when i was in Microsoft as given i >> used to dogfood a lot of software for the company >> >> >> >> Aha! This is the third time I’ve seen that word used like that in the last >> week (and I refuse to lookup what it means). This is the tip of the terrible >> iceberg of “verbising” (turning nouns into verbs). It’s an American disease >> that is spreading, we must start an international drive to eradicate it. >> >> >> >> Soon we’ll have 1984 newspeak like “After 5pm I’m going to glass some >> wine, chair myself and hobbyise some code”. Or “I was walking the garden >> this morning and I lost my footage and fell over” (that’s not quite >> verbising, but I’m hearing more of this sort of thing recently). >> >> >> >> Greg >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ozsilverlight mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight >> > > > _______________________________________________ > ozsilverlight mailing list > [email protected] > http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight > > _______________________________________________ ozsilverlight mailing list [email protected] http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight
