Podcasting isn’t ubiquitous yet
9 Dec 2004
Today’s word was requested by fellow podcaster Nicole Simon. You can find her podcast, Useful Sounds at useful-sounds.de
Nicole requested the word ubiquitous. It is an adjective meaning widespread, widely available or being everywhere at once.
I usually hear ubiquitous used to describe a new technology. For example in 10 years wifi will be ubiquitous.
The example Nicole sent is from a recent CNN article on podcasting. It reads:
In the end, if MP3 players become so ubiquitous that we are invaded by
ear-bud-wearing podcasting people, they will probably be too
pre-occupied with choosing from all these programming options to
screech and point at those not connected to the mothership.
Nicole requested this word for a very interesting reason. She wanted to hear how it was pronounced. Nicole, as you might guess from her domain name, lives in Germany and she reminded me that for many listeners podcasting is about learning a new language and that this podcast is very educational.
Thank you Nicole I appreciate the suggested word and the feedback.
When I am uncertain how to pronounce a word I look it up at merriamwebster.com. They offer an audio recording of each word. And unlike some online dictionaries it is free and cross-platform.
Dec 09, 2004 @ 08:01:41
Great! Who needs Merriam when we have Scott?
Thank you, I will go and repeat it so I can speak it correctly.
))
(hope you will be better soon, your voice sounds like you do have a cold or something *smile*)
Dec 09, 2004 @ 09:57:21
Scott, love the podcast. Keep up the good work. I just wanted to give a plug to my favorite online dictionary resource http://www.onelook.com.
Onelook indexs over 5 millions words from over 900 dictionaries. The cool thing is that it include specialty dictionaries (eg. technical, medical, scientific, etc.).
Lots of cool search features and it links you back to the source dictionaries.
Dec 10, 2004 @ 01:30:51
Hi,
That’s reall cool that the Mirriam Webster provide some audioso we can hear how a word is pronounce.
You do a great job already Seb, by providing us the word AND an audio explnation…
Imagine how educational is your podcast, only for disabled people (I primarly think of nblind people) !
Thanks again
Olivier (from France :p )