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Subject:Re[2]: pet peeve words From:Kathleen Padova <kpadova -at- ASICENTRAL -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 15 Sep 1997 13:50:00 -0500
My un-favorites:
-Invoke (makes me think something a coven of witches does)
-Use Case Scenarios (please,...examples)
The winner....
-Heirarchical Decomposition (took me a week to figure out the speaker
was talking about a table of contents!)
Kathleen
kpadova -at- millstar -dot- com
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