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I agree with your son completely. The web fits over the top of the Internet. The Internet is a service upon which the web relies. However, many people very commonly conflate these two very different things. And my question is: how widespread does a mis-usage have to be before one just gives up and says, "Okay. Have it your way!"
Right now I can't stand the terms "DIS" or "disrespect" used as a verb. First, it doesn't sound right and second, there's something about people trying too hard to be cool that I find offensive. But the world is passing me by. The usage is already very widespread. I reckon that in the near future we'll start seeing these in dictionaries and then it won't matter how much it sounds like fingernails on a chalkboard to my ears. (I get the same irritation when I hear people say "taters" or "sgetti.")
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I think "avatar" originally meant a 3D, at least partially articulated representation on The Net.
Actually, it originally meant something quite else, and still does to many people.
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"Actually, it originally meant something quite else, and still does to many people. "
Of course. I wasn't thinking. I ought to have said something like, "When the word was first coopted from its philosophical usage, it meant ..."
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"Actually, it originally meant something quite else, and still does to many people. "
Of course. I wasn't thinking. I ought to have said something like, "When the word was first coopted from its philosophical usage, it meant ..."
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Right now I can't stand the terms "DIS" or "disrespect" used as a verb.
Dunno about "DIS" but your dislike of "disrespect" can't be because of its status as a neologism. It ain't been one of those for almost 400 years.
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while other verbs in that neighborhood, such as disrepute and disrest and disrestore(!) went all obsolete on us.
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Disrepute just moved to the nominurbs.
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while other verbs in that neighborhood, such as disrepute and disrest and disrestore(!) went all obsolete on us.
Said he with disregard (who was Beauregard's dashing but disagreeable cousin).
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Disrepute is/was a verb??
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Main Entry: 1disrepute
Function: transitive verb
Etymology: 1dis- + repute (v.)
obsolete : to bring into discredit : DISESTEEM
Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged. Merriam-Webster, 2002.
evidently saw much sermonic usage in the 1600s; e.g., "Is it not infinitely better to be unjustly defamed by men, than to be disreputed by God?".
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