I hate this word...

historicist said:
This is totally unrelated to photography, but I hate the word so much I have to get it off my chest:

ego-doc (or ego-dok?): autobiographies, letters, diareies etc. etc.

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego-Dokument
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Hmmm . . . after doing a quick google search of the English spelling, it would appear that this term hasn't made much headway into the English language yet. Perhaps just as well, since we already have blogs, for pete's sake. Who needs ego documents when ya got blogs.

Speaking of which, now there's a word I hate: blog. Ugh. Even the pronunciation sounds bad. Reminds me of 'blob' or 'glob' or 'slob.'
 
Sorry, but I love the wod analog. And the spelling doesn't bother me either. Just like catalog. Who cares that the original spelling was analogue and catalogue? Not me.

Of course, I've been seeing the word 'CATALOG" and 'CATALOGED' for nearly 3 decades within the z/OS (aka OS/390 or MVS) Operating Systems, along with millions of other users.

It's not that I don't have an affection for the English language. Just that I don't see the need to try and protect it. It belongs to everyone who uses it, and it will change.
 
crawdiddy said:
It's not that I don't have an affection for the English language. Just that I don't see the need to try and protect it. It belongs to everyone who uses it, and it will change.
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Yup. One of the fundamental principles of linguistics is that languages change over time. When a language stops changing, it is a dead language -- like Latin and classical Greek.
 
'Chinping' strikes me as one of the better innovations. Just look at someone examining the image on the back of their digicam. What do they look like? A chimpanzee examining a banana!

Cheers,

R.
 
Roger Hicks said:
'Chinping' strikes me as one of the better innovations. Just look at someone examining the image on the back of their digicam. What do they look like? A chimpanzee examining a banana!

Cheers,

R.
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I think Chimping is OK too, but I had assumed it was an allusion to an infinite number of monkeys and typewriters.

P.S. my computer says;

"Origin of the term

The term 'chimping' is attributed to Robert Deutsch, a USA Today staff photographer, in September of 1999 when writing a story for the SportsShooter email newsletter.[2]

The phrase is most likely derived from comparison between the sounds and actions some make while reviewing images and those of an excited primate (Oooh! Oooh! Aaah!), or when a photographer is completely absorbed in the act of analyzing, admiring or proudly displaying a shot to others."
 
I don't hate this word just the use of it lately... "Issue"
The company I used to work for replaced the word "Problem" with "Issue"...we weren't allowed to use the word "Problem" when writing our reports...
The phrase "Touch-Base" bothers me too...
 
peripatetic said:
"chimping" is looking at the picture you've just taken on the back of the camera (possibly in a group) and going ooh, ooh, ooh. (Any kind of grunting noise will do really.)
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Got it!! thanks for the explanation.
I saw a photo taken recently of a crowd of tourists all using digital compacts at arms length, the cameras had all been removed in Photoshop, looked like a Nazi rally!! Disturbing!!
 
Hmmm . . . after doing a quick google search of the English spelling, it would appear that this term hasn't made much headway into the English language yet. Perhaps just as well, since we already have blogs, for pete's sake. Who needs ego documents when ya got blogs.
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It's fairly common in German language academic publications, particularly in certain areas of history where the theme of everyday life is actively researched (or at least that's the context I hear it in). So the vast majority of the English speaking world get spared but woe betide historians...
 
Sparrow said:
Downsizing, as in "you're sacked"
Smartsizing, as in "you're sacked"
Rationalisation, as in "you're sacked"
Modernisation, as in "you're sacked"


Consultation, as in "you're sacked, but a bit later"
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... and the latest iteration:
Right-sizing, as in "you're sacked".🙁

Pete.
 
Awesome", "prosumer", "analogue", "glass", "bokeh", "legacy", "copy" (as in "my copy of the lens"), "issue" (instead of "problem"), "stunning" (surely the most over-used adjective in photography).
 
How about when someone is explaining their Point of View and they start the sentence with..."I mean..."
I hear it all the time these days and it's really getting on my last nerve...but I'm not a Hater...
 
Roger Hicks said:
Eh?

(Traditional British usage. Means 'What on earth are you talking about' or 'I can't/didn't hear you'. How does the Canuk usage vary? Pronunciation? It sounds just like 'A?' in English.)

Cheers,

R.
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Didn't you hear that we Canucks (with a second "c" by the way--just like the hockey team--Number 1, Eh?) have adopted "Eh" as a national symbol and have stopped the Brits from using it. Actually, I suspect most Brits wouldn't use it now anyway because they don't want to sound like us...
 
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