Hi Paul/Cotty,
Working in IT as well (in Australia to boot!) I also hear the most appalling
"mangleization" :-)
of English (note the zed).
However architected would appear to be a reborn word - first cited from
Keats.
Following is courtesy of the OED;
architected ppl. a., designed by an architect;
architecting vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1818 Keats Let. 23 July (1931) I. 219 This was architected thus By
the great Oceanus. [But see architecture v.]
Simon
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Ewins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, 16 January 2002 4:58 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Mangling English (Papped)
>Now I hear it all
> the time. Papped! Have you been papped recently? No? Me neither. I'm
>not pretty enough, sigh.
>
Hi Cotty,
try working in IT - they are worse than politicians for mangling
English. The one that I hate the most, the one that really makes me grind my
teeth is "architect". Not the noun, the verb. To architect something is what
a systems architect is hired for. So he/she goes off and starts architecting
the new system, and when it is finished they do a review to makes sure it
was well architected. Honest, I have heard all of these bastardised versions
of the word used in just those ways. Architecting seems to be a higher level
process than designing, so they are somehow not the same thing. It probably
started because Designers design things and Analysts analyse things so
therefore Architects must architect things.
Mind you, one of our politicians did come up with "incentivation" to combine
both motivation and incentive. AIR he lost that election...
Paul Ewins
Melbourne, Australia
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