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RE: describing the minority as literate is a circular argument?
Subject:RE: describing the minority as literate is a circular argument? From:Mailing List <mlist -at- safenet-inc -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 16 Aug 2004 14:54:08 -0400
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> From: bounce-techwr-l-161075 -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com
> [mailto:bounce-techwr-l-161075 -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com]On Behalf Of
> Lee Hunter
> I find it
> improbable, to say the least, that anyone who uses "filesystem" would
> have the slightest difficult reading and understanding "file system".
>
> People who appreciate careful usage will know the difference
> and people
> for whom usage is not especially important will, by
> definition, not care.
On the third hand, if your text goes to people who are
'in the know', and they expect "filesystem" in modern/
current documents... and they remember "file system"
from the 'old days'... then your writing might be subtly
conveying that it is out-of-date, or that it includes
ancient text that nobody bothered to clean up.
"Jeez, these instructions are SO last week. Look, he
still calls it 'file system'." :-)
Kevin
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