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Re: Methodology... (Score:1)

by paulg (2428) on 2002.02.11 7:16 (#4318)

.....don't forget 'leveraging'!

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  by pdcawley (485)
  
  For some reason I have less of a problem with that particular piece of verbing. It's not as if 'to leverage' had a meaning before it got appropriated to mean 'to use an existing thing to help achieve some other goal', or whatever. The neologism is so handy dammit.
  
  But 'methodology' is using an existing word and suffix and giving the resulting word a meaning that's at odds with the usual meaning of the suffix. And to add insult to injury there's already a perfectly good, two syllable word ('approach', or ma

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