Good analogy, you know major cultural change is highly related to the
evolution of language.





>From: Jason Emery <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: a quick comment
>Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 16:58:20 -0600
>
>This reminds me of the fine art carried on in George Orwell's 1984.  The
>annihilation of the English language!
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Edward B . Jelks [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 3:32 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: a quick comment
>
>
>This thread calls to mind some of the other word changes that have taken
>place in the last 50 years or so.  Medication (the application; of
>medicines) has largely replaced medicine in popular usage; mix (used first,
>I think, by a vendor of pancake mix) for mixture; quote for quotation;
>resolve for resolution, to mention some examples.  Following this trend, we
>could take a vacate instead of a vacation, or study a populate instead of a
>population, or buy a plumbing fix instead of a fixture.
>
>ebj
>
>At 10:06 AM 1/16/2003 -0800, Grover, Margan A POA02 wrote:
>
>
>
>OK. I hate being a pain, but the word "methodology" is redundant. The word
>is 'method.' Unless your doing a study of methods. But you have field
>methods, lab methods, research methods, etc. Ack.
>
>Before this gets out of hand, I just want to say that I am by _no_ means
>perfect. I just a twitch about people using that ... word.
>
>Margan
>
>


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