A webinar is a specific type of web conferencing, like a seminar with a presenter and an audience, only online. I have nothing against the concept; I just think that the word sounds stupid. Unlike web + broadcast [=webcast], web + seminar do not easily create one word starting with web. What’s wrong with calling it a web seminar?
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Sorry, I don’t have the bandwith to say anything but webinar. We’ll have to interface later on this bleeding-edge topic!
I’ll bleed your edge!
LEAST. FAVORITE. WORD. EVAR.
[…] other news, I’ve gotten over my revulsion for “webinar,” if only because of its ubiquity. I’m also much more of a descriptivist these […]