Jason Kottke:

Language is power and words are meaningful beyond their simple or intended definitions. For any given problematic word, there are so many other words you can use.

Spot on.

This stood out to me as I was writing about BBEdit last week. I appreciate the spirit Bare Bones inject into the tag line for the product, but the verb used rubs me the wrong way.

At first it seemed like a foregone conclusion that I’d use the language of the tag line more directly to title the article, the image file or simply quote it in the article body. Ultimately I decided I didn’t want that word appearing on this site with that meaning.