To: Anaxagoras who wrote (1710 ) 1/16/1999 4:08:00 PM From: Anaxagoras Read Replies (1) | Respond to
Perhaps the following rant is here misplaced; indeed, maybe we need another thread of a more general nature, say "Linguistic Pet Peeves"?not , synonymous with 'pessimist', regardless of what some dictionaries may say. Observe the abuse in the following published piece I just ran across a minute ago (name and title withheld to protect the ignorant, emphases mine):<<In practice many page views still go unsold, perhaps as much as 80 percent or more of the traffic on the Web. Optimists view this as proof that ad revenues have the potential to rocket once the Internet matures as an advertising medium. Cynics view it as proof that the Web ad market is overpriced and subject to crippling price wars.>>
