NPOV and credibility (was Re: [WikiEN-l] Original research)

Wed Dec 15 21:10:03 UTC 2004

On 15 Dec 2004, at 21:12, Ray Saintonge wrote:

> I have a pet linguistic peeve in this debate.  Please don't mix up the 
> words "systemic" and "systematic".  Something is "systemic" if it has 
> become built into a system.  Something is "systematic"  if it is done 
> in a structured and organized way.

YAY for linguistic nitpicking! ;-)
The enormousness of the enormity of using ''enormity'' to mean 
''enormous''...
;-D

Seriously now, I am SO with you! :-)

-- ropers [[en:User:Ropers]]
     www.ropersonline.com

PS:

And then there was this incident--as Dave Barry would say, I am not 
making this up--where some US employee was actually FIRED--ie, he had 
to go to court to get his job and good reputation back--purely because 
he had said that doing such-and-such would be niggardly. Apparently the 
colleague had never ever heard of the words "niggard", "niggardly" or 
"niggardliness" and REFUSED to listen to an explanation, so your man 
had to go to the courts to get his colleague--who was totally convinced 
of having heard a racial slur--to actually ''have a look in the 
dictionary'' and duly discover that the term had more to do with 
Scrooge McDuck than with skin colo(u)r.
Meh. Words fail.