http://logorrhoea.wordpress.com "We're effluviastic about words!!" Wed, 02 May 2007 19:50:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://s2.wp.com/i/buttonw-com.png http://logorrhoea.wordpress.com http://logorrhoea.wordpress.com/2007/05/02/mortons-fork/ http://logorrhoea.wordpress.com/2007/05/02/mortons-fork/#comments Wed, 02 May 2007 19:49:45 +0000 verysimplegame http://logorrhoea.wordpress.com/2007/05/02/mortons-fork/ Continue reading →]]> Morton’s Fork – A choice between two bad alternatives that lead to the same bad outcome. Different than Hobson’s Choice (a choice that is not really a choice at all) and Sophie’s Choice (a choice between two very bad alternatives with different bad outcomes and an even worse outcome for no choice being made).

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]]> http://logorrhoea.wordpress.com/2007/05/02/twee/feed/ 0 verysimplegame http://logorrhoea.wordpress.com/2007/04/27/portmanteau/ http://logorrhoea.wordpress.com/2007/04/27/portmanteau/#comments Fri, 27 Apr 2007 00:03:30 +0000 verysimplegame http://logorrhoea.wordpress.com/2007/04/27/portmanteau/ Continue reading →]]> Portmanteau – A word manufactured from the concatenation of two unique terms (Administrivia, edutainment), first used by Lewis Carroll. Currently in heavy overuse in the production of MarketSpeak™ (ooh, there’s another one). But Portmanteau itself is still strangely beautiful – at least, until Portmanteauworthy catches on…

]]> http://logorrhoea.wordpress.com/2007/04/27/portmanteau/feed/ 0 verysimplegame http://logorrhoea.wordpress.com/2007/04/27/administrivia/ http://logorrhoea.wordpress.com/2007/04/27/administrivia/#comments Fri, 27 Apr 2007 00:02:02 +0000 verysimplegame http://logorrhoea.wordpress.com/2007/04/27/administrivia/ Continue reading →]]> Administrivia – The mind-numbing detail and paperwork that goes into the maintenance of a government job. More recently, used in reference to the daily grind of a Network Admin. First time I heard this was in the 80′s while employed at GTRI (Georgia Tech Research Institute), where the phrase “Government In Action” actually had one too many spaces.

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