Saturday 10 June 2017

Vocabulary: What is 'Innovation'? A Linguistic Perspective




Word play through word formation, is often very inspiring.

Innovation, is spelled 'in + novation'. Prefix 'in-' means 'not', used to negate the word that follows, 



'novation', a situation that requires everyone to agree in order to make changes.

Innovation is, therefore, a situation that does not require everyone to agree in order to make changes.

If someone claims to be into innovation, but is always bounded by the need to have everyone's agreement, then that is not innovation, that is only in novation.

Innovation is not to be in novation. You can quote me.


Reference:
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/innovation
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/in?q=in-
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/novation