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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

[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."