Blog 2.0

Of late, people have started using technical terms in their personal lives. The impact of such an exercise could be irreversible and fatal to the language. But like everything else there are two schools of thoughts. One school wholeheartedly welcomes new words to the existing vocabulary of the language. The other type despises and prevents any new words to enter the language. I am not here to advocate either of them but to provide an insight about the consequences that could occur if the penetration is not stopped.

One such word is Web 2.0. It was first coined by Tim O'Reilly and has become so successful that everyone has started using it. Services 2.0, SaaS 2.0, RSS 2.0, HTML 2.0, ASP.NET 2.0, etc. The list is endless but the pattern is easily identifiable with 2.0 as the repetitive unit.

Diffusion of these words in our everyday language would make a lot of difference. 2.0 would make it simple for us to give explanations to others. Whatever you cannot explain is 2.0.

Executive 2.0 and Worker 2.0 for office 2.0 doing Work 2.0. Appraisals 2.0, Resignation 2.0

Mother 2.0 and Father 2.0 living with Kid 2.0. Mother in law 2.0, Father in law 2.0

Imagine Ram naming his new born baby as Ram 2.0 and Sheetal as Sheetal 2.0.

Imagine a guy saying, “I Love 2.0 you” instead of simple I love you.

Imagine writing Gita 2.0 and Ramayana 2.0

Begging 2.0, Teaching 2.0, Corruption 2.0, Media 2.0, etc.

Opportunities are many but we need to think creatively to use the term carefully and intelligently. Otherwise we would end up contaminating the language and there is no comeback after that.