RE: (Slight) HUMOUR: Banned Words

[edunn -at- transport -dot- bombardier -dot- com]

ah hem... John?
All of your examples are mathematical and jargon based. Exactly the iluminated
sources of languagemangling most are complaining about.
Funnily enough, the symantec page is a virus definition.
I suspect that's how many on this list view these words.

Eric L .Dunn

;-)



ah hem...Margaret?  Sometimes it is

http://www.ncsc.dni.us/fun/user/tcc/euphoria/prepend.htm
http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/p/prepend.html
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/html.prepend.html
http://www.mathematica.co.kr/mathcomm/20_definitionviz/prepend.html

> After a lot of years my favorite is still "prepend." This came from
> a programmer I worked with. His reasoning was if "append" means to
> put at the end, then "prepend" must mean to put at the beginning.
>
> Wouldn't it be nice if language was that logical.;)

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mailto:john -at- tdandw -dot- com, 732-259-2874




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