michael gould wrote: > On the VGI term that most everyone here seems to hate (not-invented-here?): > > (Professor) Goodchild tried to coin a term sufficiently serious and credible > for the academic world (where geowanking becomes something like "popular > prototyping of innovative geographic applications"!), while conveying the > basic notions behind neogeography and other similar "memes". He did not > intend for the term to overly focus on the data, just as I suppose > "neogeography" was not intended to overly focus on things that (only) > geographers do. > > Applying to both comments: we don't all need to become one homogeneous mass > and think and talk alike... ¡viva la diversidad!
Quite. Dear Geo Wankers, I wonder whether it is time to take a fresh look at the name of this very forum. To many English speakers, the word "wanking" is a reference to masturbation. Try explaining to your boss (some people still have bosses...) that you're spending your time with "geo"wankers that you met on the Internet. And if your boss isn't a native English speaker, try finding a dictionary that will help them understand what "wanking" is. If we want the boring/serious/grownup GIS world to take more notice of the kinds of things that are discussed around here, having a mailing list with a different name would help. I understand that to some US-American ears, "wanking" has a less graphic, and less sexual reading. But still ... looking around in dictionary etc sites, the meaning is still pretty strong (see below). May I suggest that a move away from (geo)wanking might help this community erm... better cross-fertilise with others? cheers, Dan ps. this could be done by a bit of mail aliasing/sysadmin I hope, rather than mass resubscription to a new list http://www.thefreedictionary.com/wank [[ wank (wngk) Chiefly British Vulgar Slang tr. & intr.v. wanked, wank·ing, wanks To masturbate. Often used with off. n. 1. An act of masturbation. 2. A detestable person. ]] [[ Noun 1. wank - slang for masturbation hand job, jacking off, jerking off masturbation, onanism - manual stimulation of the genital organs (of yourself or another) for sexual pleasure jargon, lingo, patois, argot, vernacular, slang, cant - a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo" Verb 1. wank - get sexual gratification through self-stimulation jack off, jerk off, she-bop, masturbate, fuck off masturbate - stimulate sexually; "The old man wanted to be masturbated by the prostitute" scarf - masturbate while strangling oneself excite, stir, stimulate - stir feelings in; "stimulate my appetite"; "excite the audience"; "stir emotions" Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2008 Princeton University, Farlex Inc. ]] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Wank%20(w%27ank%3B%20n%2C%20adj.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wank _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
