Monday, July 14, 2008

Paradigms

In case you've missed it, the term smart people use for changing your point of view is "paradigm shift." The word "paradigm," so I've been told, should be pronounced "paradime," but someone decided to insert a silent G. I don't know why, but this is interesting, and here's why:

To correctly pronounce that word, you have to go through a paradigm shift, because otherwise you would pronounce it phonetically, instead of correctly.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I'm all for the revolution of spelling words phoenetically. Night=nite through=thru. And sensless to write out a number.
However paradime would be a couple of dimes, so it should be paradyme. However do you know why they are called paramedics? Answer below (backwards):

meht fo 2 syawla si ereth

I believe instead of writing your full name I just will write (-) as your symbol.

PS: Did you ever read the comments on watermelons?