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#111380 09/02/03 02:19 PM
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OK, what the heck is "colocation"? In Portuguese, colocaçao means "placement," but I have feeling that's a false cognate to this neologism. I see the word as a banner ad on My Yahoo! placed by some outfit called Level 3 Communications. I even clicked on it to find out more, but of course they assume that any clickers already know what it means.

Meanwhile, some recent NewsSpeak that's been bothering me:

"on the ground"

"disparate"

Both are fine, but I find them suddenly very overused. Comments?


#111381 09/02/03 02:25 PM
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colocation

If it's a misspelling of collocation m-w online dates it to 1605. Does this meaning look like it works?

http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=collocation


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the old word had linguistic shadings; the new spelling is used in networking and usually refers to putting all of your servers in one room. there's another usage having to do with putting all of the people assigned to a new project in the same physical area -- I don't know how that one is properly spelled.

as to disparate, the wordsmiths were desperate for something to use as often as they use analogous, I guess.


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I don't know how that one is properly spelled.

Neither do *they, most likely.

Thanks, tsuwm. Once again, you've come to the rescue.


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I used to work for level 3 communications I should show you some mail they used to send it is ful of strange Newspeak


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as to disparate, the wordsmiths were desperate
putting all of your servers in one room

Um...as in, co-location?


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Jackie, you have to be careful not to drop a syllable and write collation. You'd turn this into a food post.


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Hey--I'm not the one who brought up servers!


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>>as to disparate, the wordsmiths were desperate for something to use as often as they use analogous, I guess.

I agree tsuwm. I wonder why that happens. Here in Québec there has been a sudden surge in the use of complicité (complicity).

Suddenly it's in the papers, speeches, people use it in casual conversations. Not that it's a bad word but why is it popping up so often it becomes annoying.



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I find discourse another example of an epidemic omnivore


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