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Another welcome reminder that words are our friends, this time applied to the dogged, never as simple as it ought to be widgetification of stuff. Eighteen months into GTD, and still so much room for improvement. This simple verb chart is now at the top of my actions file, and on a post-it on the wall. By itself it looks useful; as I add my own language it will only get better. Déclic.

All these years of badgering developers to use the right words in their code, and I forget to apply it in my own pursuits.

Note that this is from some nearly lost GTD materials that look to be worth the search.

If you’re into GTD and you somehow haven’t come across 43folders, check it out now. Merlin gives geek cred to something I probably would have otherwise dismissed, and that would have been more than unfortunate. Getting this from a geek who is living and breathing the stuff makes a huge difference.

Roger Ebert and Daniel Woodburn have a fruitful conversation about the words for little people. Like Ebert, I had No Idea about “midget,” and would have thought “little people” derogatory. There is an added bonus: some subculture-related cockney rhyming slang towards the bottom.

Being an American living in Europe, I’m sometimes jokingly reminded by others of how “extreme” political correctness is in the US. Maybe so (that wiki entry and especially its talk pages remind me just how broad and controversial that topic is), but what I often find lacking in the easy PC dismissals I hear is any awareness or even interest in how the so-labeled feel about the term. The Ebert/Woodburn correspondence is an especially nice counterpoint.

(via rebecca’s pocket)