Thought for Wednesday, Oct 24, 2007

This year, a new word is doing the rounds .
"disintermediation". It means cutting out the
middleman, and of course, if the speaker
wasn't being paid lots of money to give
this talk, he or she would have used the
familiar old phrase instead of opting for
new-fangled business jargon. But no-one
became a guru by using words that
everybody understands, and in any case,
we live in a politically correct world,
and whoever heard of middlewomen?

-First published in MicroScope
August 9th, 1996
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tftd must confess that he had not heard or seen this word until
reading a 'learned'(with two syllables) paper this week.