informatics

[Shapiro, Fred]

I believe "informatics" has been a well established name in information science and medicine for decades.

Fred Shapiro



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From: American Dialect Society [ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] on behalf of Jonathan Lighter [wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM]
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2014 9:53 AM
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: informatics

Major in them at Adelphi:

http://onlinemshidegree.adelphi.edu/lp-new/?Access_Code=AU-MSHI-YAHOOCONTENT&kwd=stream_ad&utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=stream_ad

It used to be that such gimmicky new words were restricted to greedy,
cynical advertisers. Now institutions of higher learning are inventing them.

Oh. Right. Silly me.

JL

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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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