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Re: Thursday, September 26, 2002
I think you've picked one poor example to criticize from the USA Today piece (which, I agree, ain't so great). Here's the full text of the Slashdot item: Slashdot. The Internet version of what happens in the restaurant world when a glut of customers, generated by a sparkling review, descends on and ultimately ruins the place. "We were slashdotted" is a common complaint when unexpected popularity causes an ill-equipped site to crash. Derivation: Slashdot.com, one of the Web's most popular blogs, provides geeks with Web links to wacky and topical technology stories. In the future, slashdot will describe what happens when enlightened crowds ruin really cool things, such as Nantucket, the Dave Matthews Band and the BMW Mini Cooper. It's pretty clear that the author is defining "slashdot" as a verb, not a noun. The entry isn't so bad--though if I were this author's editor (dream on!), I'd've required these be faked-up dictionary entries, phonetic pronunciation, (n) or (v) marks, and all. (Come to think of it, that'd be a bad move--USA Today is designed to keep readers from ever having to use a dictionary.) But, if I were you, I'd've picked on his entry for ping--it's not only clueless, but allows you to point to Ping the Duck. There are responses to this message:
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