Increased use of the word "evolve" lately
Increased use of the word "evolve" lately
Has anyone else noticed how much this word is used in advertising and speeches lately? Such as the car evolved, such and such tool evolved. What is with that? Was there a meeting of a group of CEOs and they decided to use that word to be hip or something?
The funny thing is if the listener thinks about it though, did the car evolve or was it improved by intelligent design? I think any sane person would agree with the latter. Maybe they are trying to show that the only way something evolves is through intelligent design.
The funny thing is if the listener thinks about it though, did the car evolve or was it improved by intelligent design? I think any sane person would agree with the latter. Maybe they are trying to show that the only way something evolves is through intelligent design.
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Re: Increased use of the word "evolve" lately
Evolve is to Develop Gradually. Whether the ID improved the Car when you look back at the Design and Technology of the Car you can say it evolved.CharlieB wrote:Has anyone else noticed how much this word is used in advertising and speeches lately? Such as the car evolved, such and such tool evolved. What is with that? Was there a meeting of a group of CEOs and they decided to use that word to be hip or something?
The funny thing is if the listener thinks about it though, did the car evolve or was it improved by intelligent design? I think any sane person would agree with the latter. Maybe they are trying to show that the only way something evolves is through intelligent design.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/evolve
to develop gradually: to evolve a scheme.
To develop or achieve gradually: evolve a style of one's own.
I guess everyone just has a bad flavour in their mouth over the word "Evolution".
Re: Increased use of the word "evolve" lately
Well it is a strange use of a word. It seems to me the sentence now has a passive voice:
The car evolved.
The question remains. Who evolved the car? Evolved is the verb and the the noun in the sentence couldn't have changed without the unmentioned people doing it. Similar to saying "The car improved". They could say the "The car has been improved" which is also the passive voice. The correct way to say it is "We improved the car".
The car evolved.
The question remains. Who evolved the car? Evolved is the verb and the the noun in the sentence couldn't have changed without the unmentioned people doing it. Similar to saying "The car improved". They could say the "The car has been improved" which is also the passive voice. The correct way to say it is "We improved the car".
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Re: Increased use of the word "evolve" lately
It's all mind controlCharlieB wrote:Well it is a strange use of a word. It seems to me the sentence now has a passive voice:
The car evolved.
The question remains. Who evolved the car? Evolved is the verb and the the noun in the sentence couldn't have changed without the unmentioned people doing it. Similar to saying "The car improved". They could say the "The car has been improved" which is also the passive voice. The correct way to say it is "We improved the car".
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Re: Increased use of the word "evolve" lately
FFC wrote:It's all mind controlCharlieB wrote:Well it is a strange use of a word. It seems to me the sentence now has a passive voice:
The car evolved.
The question remains. Who evolved the car? Evolved is the verb and the the noun in the sentence couldn't have changed without the unmentioned people doing it. Similar to saying "The car improved". They could say the "The car has been improved" which is also the passive voice. The correct way to say it is "We improved the car".
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Re: Increased use of the word "evolve" lately
Actually even that would not be correct because sometimes they do not improve the car... They Changed the Car. Over a certain period of time they talk about the Changing of that car and therefore name it the Evolution of the Car.CharlieB wrote:Well it is a strange use of a word. It seems to me the sentence now has a passive voice:
The car evolved.
The question remains. Who evolved the car? Evolved is the verb and the the noun in the sentence couldn't have changed without the unmentioned people doing it. Similar to saying "The car improved". They could say the "The car has been improved" which is also the passive voice. The correct way to say it is "We improved the car".
I think we get hung up on the word because all we hear it used for is the Biological Evolution of a Species. Sad and unfortunate.
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Re: Increased use of the word "evolve" lately
You make a good point. I have noticed this as well, and not only is it extremely annoying, it is disrespectful to human ingenuity. I have a huge problem with the defining word evolution itself, I think it is the most controversial word in the dictionary, and by that I am not even referring to Darwinian evolution. My reason for this, is that "evolution" meaning "unfold" is a word without "cause", its a lazy term people use because they don't really know what it actually means themselves. Darwinian evolution has fooled enough people into thinking all of technology evolve in the way Darwinian processes evolve, as a process of materialistic natural causes itself, that is a joke.
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Re: Increased use of the word "evolve" lately
Uh....
The only way a car could evolve in the Darwinian sense would be for it to turn into a pile of rusted junk just outside your trailer park.
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The only way a car could evolve in the Darwinian sense would be for it to turn into a pile of rusted junk just outside your trailer park.
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Re: Increased use of the word "evolve" lately
Well, you are only half correct — here is the rest:Fürstentum Liechtenstein wrote:Uh....
The only way a car could evolve in the Darwinian sense would be for it to turn into a pile of rusted junk just outside your trailer park.
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After billions and billion of years the rust turns into rust stuff then after a few more billions and billions of years out of the primordial emerges — an errr Model T or a Toyota? Maybe a Volvo?
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Re: Increased use of the word "evolve" lately
I'm thinking a subaru.B. W. wrote:Well, you are only half correct — here is the rest:Fürstentum Liechtenstein wrote:Uh....
The only way a car could evolve in the Darwinian sense would be for it to turn into a pile of rusted junk just outside your trailer park.
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After billions and billion of years the rust turns into rust stuff then after a few more billions and billions of years out of the primordial emerges — an errr Model T or a Toyota? Maybe a Volvo?
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Re: Increased use of the word "evolve" lately
ha ha ha...