* Posts by Michael Jenkins

2 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Feb 2009

Oz customs search lappies and mobes for smut

Michael Jenkins
Unhappy

No we *don't*!

"Australians are clearly a delicate, even over-sensitive bunch who need protecting from this sort of filth, whether it's online or on someone's iPhone."

No we *don't*! Our stupid bloody government needs a size 10 up the bloody backside, and to stay the hell away from our porn and internet ...

Looks like I'll be voting *Green* at the next election, as the only way of delivering said size 10, even though I don't agree with their economics.

Not *happy*, Kevin Rudd! :(

Semiconductor industry tries to re-architect itself

Michael Jenkins

Re: Stop making up crap words

I agree with Eddie, architect is a noun, design and re-design are the appropriate corresponding verbs.

Using "architect" and "re-architect" as verbs always sounded like a Bushism to me.

I recall originally hearing/reading architect being mis-used as a verb applied to computer microchip design. I despised it from the first time I heard it.

The plague seems to have spread from there. These things end up in dictionaries if enough people make the same mistake and it enters common usage.

I assert that even if it's in a dictionary, it's still bad usage.

It's like saying "nuke-u-lar" instead of nuclear. I've seen that pronunciation in a dictionary too, but you'll still sound like a bozo if you say it that way! :D