And it's a world without interpreters and phrase-books

[venta]

Mrs Malaprop is alive, and well, and working on Radio 4. Someone on the Today programme this morning asked Nikesh Aurora whether he thought Google would always be at the cutting edge of search technology "... or whether I and a couple of guys might come up with a new logarithm".

Then Andrew Marr on Start the Week used the word "interiority".

To the dogs, I tell you.

Comments

[beckyl.livejournal.com]

algorithm? fairly easy confusion from a linguistic point of view, and I didn't catch it in my sleep befuzzled state.

Interiority though, surely that's just gibberish? what was the context? I can't even manage to come up with a phrase where I might want to use it...

[venta.livejournal.com]

Algorithm I assume, yes.

I can't honestly remember the context for interiority. It was basically being used to mean "interior-ness" and kind of made sense at the time but was ugly enough to make me shout at the radio (again).