On Language: Fulminations

William Safire contemplates misuses and reuses of words, include our fave, Information Architecture

"Word thievery in engineering has become especially acute," Tim Groninger, a project engineer seethes, "due to the ever-growing hunger for words in the world of computers. I can no longer use the word architecture in the traditional sense. The word now implies the design and construction of computer networks, not buildings."

My mother STILL doesn't understand what I do.

Makes you wonder why wireframes aren't called blueprints.

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