[ExI] time for a new word?

Lee Corbin lcorbin at rawbw.com
Sun Apr 26 19:09:58 UTC 2009


Too bad "web", "webbed" and "webbing" weren't used.

The phrase "try googling 'math incompleteness'"
still sounds awkward, whereas "try webbing 'math
incompleteness' would have been better.

E.g., "go web 'futurist'" as an imperative would
have been dandy, or "go net 'futurist'".

Lee



Lee Corbin wrote:
> Damien asks "What else makes you uncomfortable
> about it" or words to that effect. I don't know.
> 
> BillK wrote:
> 
>> On 4/26/09, Lee Corbin wrote:
>>>  A word is badly needed, methinks, for
>>>  "do a web search for". E.g., google
>>>  for "incompleteness math".
>>>
>>>  But "google" doesn't work since it's
>>>  not generic (and something else feels
>>>  wrong about it)...
>>
>>> From Webster's New Millennium™ Dictionary of English
>> Copyright © 2003-2009 Dictionary.com, LLC
>>
>> Main Entry:      google
>> Part of Speech:  v
> 
> Well, I was the first in my circle of friends
> to use the word as a verb, because I remember
> one of them making a note of the fact that I
> did.
> 
> So I'm probably just ahead of the curve here
> somehow, too...   :-)
> 
>> Definition:      to search for information about a specific person
>> through the Google search engine
>> Example:      She googled her high school boyfriends.
> 
> Ah. Very good. So this strong form obviates "for".
> 
> Maybe it just seems like an ugly word, and too
> hard to say (at least for the past tense like here).
> 
>> Etymology:      trademark Google
>> Usage:      googling n
>>
>> Main Entry:      google
>> Part of Speech:      v
> 
> Oh well. Looks like it's a done deal.
> 
> Lee
> 
>> Definition:      to search for information on the Internet, esp. using
>> the Google search engine
>> Example:      We googled to find the definition of the new word.
>> Etymology:      trademark Google
>> Usage:      googling n
>>
>> ---------------
>>
>>> From The Online Etymology Dictionary
>> google (v.)
>>     "to search (something) on the Google search engine," 2000
>> (do a google on was used by 1999).
>> The domain google.com was registered in 1997.
> 
> 



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