Thursday, April 14, 2011

Nagivation

This is one of those slip-of-the-tongue things that stuck in my head. I happened to say (in my head) nagivation instead of navigation, and then it struck me that this misspoken word could well be a neologism.

Nagivation: Irritating steps that websites put between you and your goal to better their interests.

I can already imagine an eggcorn to it too:
Nagevation: Avoiding nagivation links

Isn't language fun?

Aside: This is why English is vibrant and alive and highly structure languages such as Sanskrit aren't.

ಸ್ಥಾವರಕ್ಕೆ ಅಳಿವುಂಟು ಜಂಗಮಕ್ಕೆ ಅಳಿವಿಲ್ಲ
as Basavanna would say!

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