LBO-Talk March 2001: queries (fwd)

[Peter Kosenko]

I think you are right that we're making more of it
than we probably should.  I went off on a tirade
about the jargony use of the term "space" in
literary theory (because it drove me CRAZY back
then), but compared to that, this seems like one
of those minor slipages that an editor could
easily take care of, as witnessed by my actual
ability to MAKE SENSE of it.

Peter Kosenko

Carrol Cox wrote:
> 
> Peter Kosenko wrote:
> >
> > When I reread the original snippet, I see that the term is just a substitute for "market."  They mean "the server market." They aren't just having a slow time selling processors for desktop computers but also for new network servers (usually a much more expensive
> 
> Among those who profess to believe that this usage is remarkable there
> ought to be someone willing to wade through those 15 long columns of
> fine print in the OED and thereby establish some basis for their
> responses to the usage. "Space" overlaps "area" in its various senses,
> and would anyone get excited about references to the industrial vs. the
> service areas of the economy? I'm rather surprised that the OED doesn't
> have 30 instead of 15 columns. Probably the speaker said space instead
> of market because he/she was comparing areas on the company's internal
> charts to each other. The market is out there, divisions of the company
> are in here.
> 
> Carrol

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