"What do you read, my lord?" asked Polonious. "Words, words, words...." answered Hamlet, suggesting that the words had little meaning. Did Hamlet live in the twenty-first century?
I'm a word lover. The word creep we live with makes me unhappy, and technology has to take a big chunk of the responsibility. What's harvest mean? To crawl and gather electronic data electronically. Ingest? To upload electronic records into a database.
The word use that annoys me most is the variations on "to create." Slap together a web page? You created it. Put some numbers in a spreadsheet? You created it. Started a wiki? You created it.
With creation so devalued, exactly what meaning is left?
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