A new word coined
One of David Pogue’s readers appears to have coined a new word: contextotomy. That’s when a company selectively quotes from a review (of a product, movie, etc.), in effect changing the meaning by omitting the context that appeared around the original meaning. In this case, the offender was a Microsoft executive, quoting from Pogue’s review of Internet Explorer 7 in an internal company email.
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cd Said,
November 2, 2006 @ 8:00 pm
I’ve registered contextotomy.com as an homage to this neologism…