"Submittal": a useless word
Apr. 29th, 2009 10:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
modernwizardWhy do people use the word "submittal" to denote "a thing that is being submitted?" [I run across the term "submittal" in my work when I see discussions of applications, permits, supporting material and related stuff that organizations are supposed to hand to one another to get approval for things.] "Submission" is a perfectly fine noun for these things.
"Submittal" is a redundant and stupid word.
SUBMIT! SUBMIT SUBMIT SUBMIT!
Incidentally, in my job search, I came across a SUBMIT button for some online application labeled SUBMIT TO WEB SITE or something similar. I felt threatened.
"Submittal" is a redundant and stupid word.
SUBMIT! SUBMIT SUBMIT SUBMIT!
Incidentally, in my job search, I came across a SUBMIT button for some online application labeled SUBMIT TO WEB SITE or something similar. I felt threatened.
I really like the word "submit." It comes from the Latin, "sub-," meaning "under" and the Latin "mit," meaning "to send." So basically it means "to send under," which is a fascinating literal and figurative connotation for submitting documents or submitting to another person. When I think of this word, I think of submarines diving below the surface, letters sliding under doors and people sinking slowly into genuflection.
I may also be biased toward the word because my greatX8-grandmother was named Submit Allen.
One of my dolls is named Submit. ^_^
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Date: Apr. 29th, 2009 02:36 pm (UTC)"Submittal": a useless word
Date: Apr. 29th, 2009 03:10 pm (UTC)Interesting choice for a name though. Submit. Makes me think of Puritan wish-names like Patience and Virtue and Charity. Like please make my kid embody this quality. Shrug. Wonder if that ever worked?
D7ana
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Date: Apr. 29th, 2009 04:58 pm (UTC)Then again, I suppose that word has been reclaimed, a bit. How nowadays something can be its opposite. We've gotta watch The Music Man.
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Date: Apr. 30th, 2009 12:07 am (UTC)there's a TON of posters around my college asking for art submissions and there's one that stand out in my mind. It had a big picture of an aggressive-looking doberman in a muzzle with SUBMIT written really large above it.
its pretty much one of my favorite posters I've ever seen around school.