Doubling the English vocabulary

[Scottch]

Apparently - you can add an "i" to anything in today's American culture and it will be absorbed into the mainstream.

I just watched ABC news and they had the "iCapture" sequence...<<sigh>>

Is there any word that is invulnerable to the onslaught of the "i" wars? If so, that is the name of my first kid.

Suggestions???

Scottch

[SezMe]

I.

[SphereGuy]

iI.

[SezMe]

Stutter?

[tsg]

Why not? A couple of years ago it was "e" everything.

Next time it will be "o".

[Gord_in_Toronto]

Why not? A couple of years ago it was "e" everything.

Next time it will be "o".

y?

[SezMe]

iy.

[OXEL]

There are several somewhat annoying things like that. For example, all those <thing> 2.0 thingys.

[SezMe]

i.e. :confused:

[six7s]

Is there any word that is invulnerable to the onslaught of the "i" wars?

Luddite

???

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tuaw.com (http://www.tuaw.com/2007/07/23/nyt-reports-on-first-announced-iphone-vulnerability/)

...New York Times includes an article with the utterly un-sensational headline "IPhone Flaw Lets Hackers Take Over, Security Firm Says" (yes, Times-style requires that even the 'i' in iPhone be capitalized in a headline), discussing the discovery of a buffer overflow exploit in Mobile Safari...

[Big Les]

The very idea of having a prefix letter indicating "interactive" (unless it stands for something else in this case?!) is a nonsense. What exactly is a non-interactive phone?

[Zep]

Aye aye!

[Zep]

What exactly is a non-interactive phone?

The xPhone.

http://blog.e-saiz.net/wp-content/images/broken_phone.jpg

[six7s]

The very idea of having a prefix letter indicating "interactive" (unless it stands for something else in this case?!) is a nonsense

I thought it stood for Internet...

which is why I thought iLuddite would be somewhat absurd

[jsiv]

The i doesn't stand for anything. That's what makes it so ingenius.

[Big Les]

:o I'm a buffoon - it's right here (http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=515863). It does stand for "Internet".

[six7s]

ingenius and disingenuous :boggled:

[jsfisher]

:o I'm a buffoon - it's right here (http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=515863). It does stand for "Internet".


Based on that link, you can infer that Apple really meant "i" as in "idiot".


:D

[brodski]

I thought it stood for Internet...

which is why I thought iLuddite would be somewhat absurd

Luddism had nothing to do with being anti technology. It was a reaction to economic changes and the way those changes were implemented- in particularthe use of unskilled labour and the abandonment of fixed prices-, not to new technology.

That this movement expressed itself via the destruction of property (whilst their opponents concerned themselves with the destruction of people) is not something which I think the Luddites should be condemned for.

[six7s]

Sorry... it was meant as a joke, to go along with the (self-effacing?) humour at:

www.luddite.com Mission (http://www.luddite.com/luddite/html/mission.html)

Luddite™ understands that machines are more than a sum of their parts
<snip/>
With a philosophy far removed from the faceless progression of technology, Luddite is devoted to bringing us back to these essential movements of the Earth which for centuries guided civilization through a simpler, happier life. Our expert technicians and craftsmen form a uniquely specialized team that brings you the finest in custom wooden computing.

We are all of nature; we must work with nature if we are to live for nature.

[brodski]

Sorry... it was meant as a joke, to go along with the (self-effacing?) humour at:

www.luddite.com Mission (http://www.luddite.com/luddite/html/mission.html)

Fair enough, it’s just one of my hobbyhorses. ;)

[SphereGuy]

iI, eCaptain. xRaise the iSails and make for ePort.

Almost sounds like pig latin.

[Paul C. Anagnostopoulos]

iYes.

~~ Paul