Thursday, September 25, 2003

Wouldn't it be good if there were a verb form of the word "agenda"? Like "agendafying" or maybe "agendification" (with an "i" in place of the second "a").

But no, we only have the noun: an agenda. One writes an agenda. It is an object. We're forced to turn to words like "strategizing" or "getting organized", which just aren't the same.

...Which occurs to me, because I was just sitting here thinking, "OK it's 4 in the afternoon. I really should start agendifying if I want to get anything accomplished today."

Another case of the contrast between Planet Sven and, well, everywhere else. Here, I can just make up words as I see fit and start using them. And, miraculously, they make sense. ...It's that making sense part that seems to be missing when I talk with y'all like this. In *ahem* my native language. Go figure.

[Jukebox: David Bowie, Starman. "There's a Starman waiting in the sky / he'd like to come and meet us, but he thinks he'd blow our minds..."]

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