January 13th, 2015

Microspeak: landing (redux)

In a meeting, my colleague Martyn Lovell said, “The plan is shifting and hasn’t landed anywhere yet.”

This was generally understood to mean “The plan is shifting and the issue is not yet settled.”

I don’t know if this is true Microspeak, or Martyn was just making up a little metaphor on the fly. But I filed it away anyway because of the interesting collision with another Microspeak use of the word landing.

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Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 30 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He occasionally appears on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account to tell stories which convey no useful information.

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