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Aug. 14th, 2006 06:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sister_luckI need a rewind button for the two afternoon art lessons today. Much badness, but really no wonder after five intense English lessons including one on the Declaration of Independence. Mondays are going to be difficult this school year.
In other news: The Tagesschau, Germany's best-known news programme, informs me that the verb googeln which was just included in the lastest edition of the Duden, Germany's official dictionary, shouldn't be used according to lawyers working for Google. The Washington Post ran a similar article a few days ago here.
I don't think that any German newspapers have got a letter from Google yet and I'm wondering whether there is going to be a global army of lawyers trying to discourage journalists and ordinary people from using google as a verb.
Here are the examples provided by Google's legal team to tell us how to write about using the company's services:
Sorry, I don't think they'll manage to change the usage of the word.
ETA: Ooops, and maybe, just maybe this letter didn't even come from Google, as this post suggests.
Edited again to announce that there are conspiracy theorists everywhere and with a link to an article in The Independent which has a statement from someone at Google who confirms the sending of the letters.
In other news: The Tagesschau, Germany's best-known news programme, informs me that the verb googeln which was just included in the lastest edition of the Duden, Germany's official dictionary, shouldn't be used according to lawyers working for Google. The Washington Post ran a similar article a few days ago here.
I don't think that any German newspapers have got a letter from Google yet and I'm wondering whether there is going to be a global army of lawyers trying to discourage journalists and ordinary people from using google as a verb.
Here are the examples provided by Google's legal team to tell us how to write about using the company's services:
Appropriate: He ego-surfs on the Google search engine to see if he's listed in the results.
Inappropriate: He googles himself."
Appropriate: I ran a Google search to check out that guy from the party.
Inappropriate: I googled that hottie."
Sorry, I don't think they'll manage to change the usage of the word.
ETA: Ooops, and maybe, just maybe this letter didn't even come from Google, as this post suggests.
Edited again to announce that there are conspiracy theorists everywhere and with a link to an article in The Independent which has a statement from someone at Google who confirms the sending of the letters.
