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And so the discussion gets bogged down in the high fen...
-----Original Message-----
From: McLauchlan, Kevin
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 4:08 PM
To: salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: RE: Usage question - "... un-initialized state" or "...
anuninitialized state"
Because so many people HAVE M$ Word (and Outlook and ... and....)
nagging them when they see it without the hyphen, and that's what went
into the user interface.
Besides, hyphens don't offend me, and that one does serve to emphasize
the un-ness of the state. :-)
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