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On Language: Fulminations William Safire contemplates misuses and reuses of words, include our fave, Information Architecture “Word thievery […]

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.”

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