Awful Nomenclature of the Week

Posted on March 7, 2007 by Jim Milles

I’m attending the DeLange Conference on Emerging Libraries–an excellent conference with lots of prominent speakers–but I have to share this pet peeve.  The phrase that has been used by two different speakers to describe the environment we’re currently living in: “the brewing perfect storm of opportunity.”  I count three mixed metaphors there.  Blech.

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4 Responses to “Awful Nomenclature of the Week”

  1. adrienne, on March 7th, 2007 at 3:51 pm Said:

    Maybe someone told them they *had* to say it?

  2. cj, on March 7th, 2007 at 5:21 pm Said:

    I found your post through Technorati - you appear to be the only one who has blogged anything at all about this conference. I had wanted to attend due to the range of speakers, but could not due to schedule conflicts but was hoping that I could catch stuff through blogs. Is this a non-blogging crowd? Any other blogs I should look at for more info?

  3. Jim Milles, on March 7th, 2007 at 7:17 pm Said:

    I don’t do liveblogging well, but I’ll try to write something up about it. The audio is available as a podcast through the Rice Events series, or downloadable as individual files, at http://webcast.rice.edu.

  4. connie, on March 21st, 2007 at 12:33 am Said:

    Perhaps you could explain what an emerging library is? And how can I get in on the action? Heh.

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