When did "Medireview" = Medieval???

[Wolfspider]

Personally, "I" thing that using "quotes" in your writing can be a good way to "emphasize" a word, or ven a "particular phrase" within the writing. It is the "adamant overuse" of such elements that can make "my" skin crawl.

 

[Theron]

Getting Back to Medreview

From what little I've seen on this, it seems to be due to virus screening software substituting "review" for "eval", when attempting to disable potential virus code.

 

[Wolfspider]

From what little I've seen on this, it seems to be due to virus screening software substituting "review" for "eval", when attempting to disable potential virus code.

Really? That would be fascinating! Do you have any documentation of this?

 

[Pielorinho]

Also, several of the pages I looked at with medireview on them were generated by Adobe Pagemill. Does anyone have a copy of this program and can experiment with it?

Finally, one site offers a service that (I think) allows physicians to search medical journals for information about new therapies and drugs. The name of the service?

Medireview.

Daniel

 

[Wolfspider]

Also, several of the pages I looked at with medireview on them were generated by Adobe Pagemill. Does anyone have a copy of this program and can experiment with it?

Yes, I noticed this. It seems to be the only instance of non-medieval reference, though.

 

[Theron]

Really? That would be fascinating! Do you have any documentation of this?

Here's what I've seen from an online discussion.

www.crackmonkey.org/pipermail/crackmonkey/2001q2/018739.html

Hope it helps.

 

[Pielorinho]

Personally, "I" think that using "quotes" in your writing can be a good way to "emphasize" a word, or ven a "particular phrase" within the writing.

It is the "overuse" of such elements that can make "my" skin crawl.

[hijack]
When you put a single word in quotes, you're denying responsibility for its use. You're suggesting that you don't quite agree with the word, but that you're quoting someone else (even if you're not quoting a specific person).

It's a great way to imply irony. It's a great way to say two things at once (note in my previous post I put "mistakes" in quotes to indicate that I don't agree that my examples were mistakes, but that they're commonly known as mistakes).

But when you try to emphasize words with quotation marks, your readers will often think you're using the word ironically, or that you disagree with the straightforward meaning of the sentence. When a restaurant advertises "FOOD" SERVED HERE, many readers will conclude that they're serving some hellish Cthulhu mockery of food -- otherwise, why put "food" in quotes?

There are lots of ways to emphasize a word. Quotation marks aren't generally the best way to do it, since the placement of a single word in quotes is often understood to undercut, rather than emphasize, the word's meaning.
[/hijack]

Daniel
ex-writing tutor

 

[Psion]

As I said, I found the term used quite frequently on the internet in place of "medieval." In fact, a simple search of the word using Altavista came up with 189 instances of its use, the vast majority dealing with medieval subjects.

That may well be the case, but I think you are missing an important point:

The yahoogroup archives and my personal cache of saves DS message don't see the two messages he quoted the supposedly have the term "medireview" in them.

So it could well be that some mail server is replace a valid term with a valid term vice replacing "eval" with "review".* But the fact remains that his post and the one I pointed to earlier (which my google-fu turned up) suggests that spontaneous replacement of the words is happening on some level, which I consider WRONG whether or not it is grammatically correct.

* - speaking of which, did anyone else who owns the 2e Wizard's Spell Compendium notice that the term "dawizard" appeared wherever "damage" should have been? It appears that someone decided that it would be a good idea to do a global search and replace to make sure that the more general (in 2e) term "wizard" was used instead of "mage", and forgot to check the "full word only" box.

 

[Aaron L]

Hellish Cthulhu mockery of food! I love it!

I hate the use of quotation marks to set off words. Underline it, people!

I noticed the "damage" to "dawizard" switch too, and pointed it out to everyone who would listen

 

[kyuss]

just because a lot of people are wrong, doesn't make it right

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Not unlike the Merriam-Webster online dictionary listing a "correct" pronunciation of the word "nuclear" as nucular!!!
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This is the way a lot of people pronounce the word, so it's as valid and correct as any other way. (If you couldn't tell, I'm hardly a prescriptionist when it comes to language.
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whatever, just because quite a number of people you seem to know are hillbillies( i.e. are unable to pronounce "werds" properly), doesn't make their hideuos grammar valid or correct.