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Re: yet another dictionary question

Subject: Re: yet another dictionary question
From: Peter <pnewman1 -at- optonline -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 22:29:56 -0500


Dick Margulis wrote:


Peter wrote:


All technical papers should have proper attributions when a portion is based upon some other published paper.
I wonder about the extent this practice is followed when creating a glossary.

Under most circumstances, a glossary should not include common words found in a dictionary; so from that point of view your question is moot. I have seen glossaries that, for example, credit some IEEE or ACM publication as a source for industry terminology and then collate in the idiosyncratic items that pertain only to the company or product or particular subdiscipline that is the subject of the publication.

thanks for the reply, I was a little loose in my caption. Since my paper will include, or refer to several hundred terms, I think it appropriate to append a glossary. It will include such terms as: Acceptor, Access Point Kiosk, ACL, ACL Link, AG, AM_ADDR, AP, API, CCK, CSMA/CA, WLAN, WMAN, PAN, etc.
The definitions are from a myriad of sources and in quite a few cases I am using plain English explanations.

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