{"id":145,"date":"2009-07-13T19:17:37","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T03:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossor.org\/blog\/?p=145"},"modified":"2009-07-13T19:17:37","modified_gmt":"2009-07-14T03:17:37","slug":"vocabulary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mossor.org\/blog\/vocabulary\/","title":{"rendered":"Vocabulary"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s good to learn new things.\u00a0 It keeps us fresh, keeps us from getting complacent.<\/p>\n

One thing that is true of moving not only to a new job, but a new job in an entirely new domain, is that there will be plenty of new things to learn.<\/p>\n

Today’s observation relates to vocabulary.<\/p>\n

It’s probably true that every group larger than four starts to create a unique vocabulary.\u00a0 It’s certainly true when you move from one company to another and even more so if you move to a new industry.<\/p>\n

With my new job, I get to learn a new industry as well as a new host of TLAs (Three Letter Acronyms) and vocabulary.<\/p>\n

I’ve read entire emails where while I recognize each and every individual word, I have no bloody idea what the author is talking about.\u00a0 That’s scary!<\/p>\n

And then, if you like words, occasionally you simply get to learn a new word and its usage.<\/p>\n

My favorite new word for the week is: Idempotent.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’ve seen it used three times in the last two weeks and, to the best of my knowledge, have never seen the word before that.<\/p>\n

I had to look it up on Wikipedia<\/a>.\u00a0 No, I’m not going to explain it here because they do a better job of explaining it there.<\/p>\n

Turns out it has an application in software as well which I’d never been exposed to before and was not clear from the context.<\/p>\n

New things to learn!\u00a0 Life is good!\u00a0 Now to use it in a sentence…<\/p>\n

“If I have a sex change operation and then have another one, I’ll be back where I started,” he observed idempotently.<\/p>\n

Hmmm.\u00a0 See, that’s funnier after<\/em> you read the Wikipedia article.\u00a0 But not much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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