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Thread #59768 Message #954398
Posted By: Amos
17-May-03 - 12:25 PM
Thread Name: BS: Studies in Innovation
Subject: RE: BS: Studies in Innovation
Yes, Peter, the poor thing has been mangled by the dogs who ruin fine words with yaps and barks.
But it is still one of the hardest things in the world to do well. It is an ability too lacking to do something which has not been done before, and often those who abuse the word are also obsessively abusing the act, degrading it into a mere dramatization. I am not talking about product innovation in the marketplace (see? I can talk MBA, even though I prefer pith!) (Some of these guys couldn't pour pith out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel...). I am talking about the rare grace of truly starting a new and better way, or design, or turn of thought or action in the world.
Anyway, it is a fine and beautiful word, left to its own devises. It rolls sweetly off the tongue like a sunrise rolling across Southern Italy. It warms the spirit. It is a well-formed and beautiful word, a zaftig word full of sloe-eyed promise. I decline to abandon it.
Fondest regards,
A