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Subject:RE: About a word - how busy are you? From:"McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com> To:"Janoff, Steven" <Steven -dot- Janoff -at- ga -dot- com>, "techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Fri, 31 May 2013 13:41:25 -0400
That was an early proposal, and they liked "busyness" better. Go figure.
But the general feeling is that "busyness" says what we want, but it's "least-worst" given that it's not a commonly-used term and we might be seen as having goofed up "business", or some-such.
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From: Janoff, Steven [mailto:Steven -dot- Janoff -at- ga -dot- com]
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Subject: RE: About a word - how busy are you?
Activity?
Steve
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Sent: Friday, May 31, 2013 8:55 AM
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Subject: About a word - how busy are you?
As near as I can tell, "busyness" is a word. Not widely used, since it looks like simple confusion with "business".
We have a hardware-and-software product in the cryptography and data security industry.
A developer has called a customer-requested feature a "busyness" counter.
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