{"id":2197,"date":"2011-04-25T12:17:38","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T16:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=2197"},"modified":"2011-04-25T12:17:38","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T16:17:38","slug":"informationization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=2197","title":{"rendered":"Informationization"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was reading something the other day about the state of the world.\u00a0 It was a translation of a document written in the language of a country I’ve never lived in before (in other words, don’t try to guess what language it was first written in!).\u00a0 What I love about it is the word, informationization<\/em>.\u00a0 I normally don’t like <\/span>(can we call it verbization?) turning nouns into verbs (such as the grotesque and currently popular man up<\/em>, as if the word man could be an action), but this is different, at least to my ear.\u00a0 Here’s what I read:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The international situation is currently undergoing profound and complex changes. The progress toward economic globalization and a multi-polar world is irreversible, as is the advance toward informationization of society. <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

It makes me want to add the suffix, -ization<\/em>, to lots of words:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span>I have noticed the increasing lentilization of our diet, lately.
\nThe blossomization of spring trees and flowers is lovely, is it not?
\nWe all enjoy the increasing lettucization of my spring garden.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

I know there are many common and legitimate uses of -ization, like globalization and normalization and fertilization.\u00a0 Somehow, informationization is different, possibly because global, normal, and fertile are all adjectives, yet information<\/em> is a noun. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But more than any of that, I like it, and that’s what word play is all about.<\/span><\/span>
\n<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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