RE: A little respect for "unvalidated"

["Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>]

Robert said that the technical usage described by Gene and me is jargon,
and I accepted that. Jargon doesn't have to have a generally understood
meaning.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: McLauchlan, Kevin
> Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 3:30 PM
> To: Dan Goldstein; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: RE: A little respect for "unvalidated"
> 
> But it does have a generally understood meaning, as captured 
> in the major sense of dictionary meaning (see your fave 
> dictionary).  I take that to be "shown or discovered to not 
> be validated/validatable", which contrasts with "doesn't 
> happen to have been validated" (implying it hadn't been 
> submitted for validation, or if it has, it's yet to exit the 
> process with a definitive answer)...
>  

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