These are being reposted from various hosts around the world. Anyone knows why let me (and Doug Brewer) know.
Ciao, graywolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: Tom Rittenhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 8:27 PM Subject: Re: A renown architecter > Probably they just need a dictionary. But then maybe it is a "very fame > singing group". > > I guess we all have our pet peeves about misused words. Mine is "campus". I > hear people talking about Corporate Campuses, Industrial Campuses, etc. I > guess my house is a Residential Campus... > > Folks say it doesn't make any difference, but if we don't agree on the > meaning of the words, how can we hope to communicate? > > Ciao, > graywolf > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Mike Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 1:51 PM > Subject: A renown architecter > > > > > 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. > > > > > > > > God, Paul, sympathy from me! I loathe that one too. Have you noticed that > > the noun and adjective forms of the word "renown" have recently begun to > be > > considered interchangeable? "A very renown singing group," etc. > > > > Illiterate, ugly, and ignorant. Talk about teeth on edge. > > > > --Mike > > - > > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
