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Subject:RE: I just heard another one From:"Ron Hearn" <rhearn -at- central1 -dot- com> To:"Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>, "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:29:06 -0800
I did see that entry, I just thought that I hadn't seen the term used that often and also thought that it seemed awkward.
Ron Hearn
Documentation Specialist
MemberDirect Product Development
phone: 604 730 6391
email: rhearn -at- memberdirect -dot- ca
website: memberdirect.ca
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From: Combs, Richard [mailto:richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com]
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 10:24 AM
To: Ron Hearn; TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: I just heard another one
Ron Hearn wrote:
> I have heard "efforting" more and more in the media e.g. "We are
> efforting to contact him..."
That's an ugly one, and completely unnecessary. What's wrong with "attempting," "striving," or "trying"?
> Another noun-to-verb I am seeing in the documents I edit is
> "transacting" (to perform a transaction).
I'm afraid you're off base on that one, Ron. "Transact" has been a perfectly good verb with fine, upstanding Latin roots for hundreds of years. Here's the Merriam-Webster entry:
Main Entry:
transÂact
Pronunciation:
\tran-Ëzakt, tran(t)-Ësakt\
Function:
verb
Etymology:
Latin transactus, past participle of transigere to drive through, complete, transact, from trans- + agere to drive, do â more at agent
Date:
circa 1585
intransitive verb : to carry on business transitive verb 1 : to carry to completion <transact a sale> 2 : to carry on the operation or management of : do <transact business>
Richard
Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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