[WikiEN-l] Intellipedia the intelligence version of Wikipedia launched

Wed Nov 1 16:30:14 UTC 2006

Steve Summit wrote:

>There's something interesting -- and a little sad -- going on
>here with respect to language evolution.  Just about everyone has
>heard of Wikipedia by now, but most people don't know where the
>name comes from.  So they're apt to seize on the wrong part of
>the word when creating derived terms.  More and more we're seeing
>the stem "pedia" used to mean "an open, collaborative repository
>that anyone can quickly and easily edit".  Sorry, Ward.
>
For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge!  It's hard to prevent the development of 
folk etymologies.  Unless the real origins are always right there at the 
top of the main page this is bound to happen.

Ec