RE: Grammar Gang - a nifty blog

["McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: 
jimmy -at- breck-mckye -dot- com
> Sent: January-26-12 6:13 PM
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: Re: Grammar Gang - a nifty blog
> 
> I once heard an interesting - but dubious - theory that nominalizations
> become popular as societies grow more complex. As actions and agency
> gets hidden behind longer and longer chains of command, and actions
> stop
> being things that one person does, but long-term projects that are
> things in their own right, we feel obliged to use passives and
> nominalizations to reflect our more complex world.
> 
> I have no idea if this is true, though.

I have that theory summarized in two words:

 - bureaucracy
 - deflection 

The one has been around for tens of centuries.
The other has been around since there were people. 
Put those together and ...

Does it still sound all that dubious? 

 - k

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