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Subject:Preferred words -- expert, writer, or user? From:Peter Sturgeon <prsturgeon -at- bell -dot- net> To:techwrl <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:38:13 -0400
The recent thread about uninstall vs remove raise a larger issue. Whose voice should be louder? The expert or the user? I have watched glossaries swell to accommodate jargon loved by development, with a layperson's term provided as the definition.
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