Sins Against English

For all my sins, I'm a fan of simplifying and optimising life generally. With this in mind, I feel qualified to discuss when new, cute abbreviations and contractions hit the urban colloquialism atmosphere. In some cases this means adopting an initially distasteful word which encapsulates exactly what I'm trying to convey. Perhaps "to Google" someone would represent an item which I would include in this small category of acceptable new terminology.

This does not, and will never include the hate-crime that is "webinar". What a hideous, clumsy and nauseating implementation. You can see where they're trying to do. It's a seminar ... but ... it's on the web! Kudos my friend. Of course this then leads me to ponder how we'd treat the reverse of this. What would a seminar in a conference or meeting room facility be? A confinar!

The noise you just heard was possibly my brain screaming.

Perhaps I'm in a minority, but "web-based seminar" just strikes me as a far more eloquent way of saying what they actually mean. Yes, I realise there are additional letters in there, but don't let them scare you! Embrace these friends, for they add to the descriptive qualities of the phrase and give you all the information you need to completely understand. When a new word is created by tearing a hole in the language universe, this is self-defeating and the grammatical equivalent of setting fire to a kitten's face.