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[trixtah]

If there isn't a term for it, I'm inventing it now.

Dear people on mailing lists:

The people who dominate are called dominants

And while I'm here, to half the techies in the world:

Administrators administer their systems/networks. Nobody "administrates" anything.

No love,

Trix

Comments

[ruth-lawrence.livejournal.com]

:::headdesk:::

It's odd though: I very rarely hear those unfortunate words *said*.

[trixtah.livejournal.com]

Some people shouldn't be allowed to write, anywhere. As for "administrate", alas alas, I have heard people *say* it. Bloody illiterate techies.

[ruth-lawrence.livejournal.com]

Oh them.

They obviously have insufficient theobromine in their diets.

[filkferengi]

[s]hee. This reminds me of one of James Bryant's rants on the list, deploring the unfortunate agglomeration "burglarize," lamenting the decline of the perfectly good word "burgle," and fearfully predicting the subsequent coinage of "burglarizer" for "burglar."