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For tech writing, "English" isn't the criteria. Your audience is.
"ActiveX" isn't even a properly formed word (that final capital just
isn't English) and I use it without hesitation. "Procrustean" is a
legitimate English word, and I never use it, even though would be a
great adjective for the input processing for fixed-length database
fields.
It's not about being right, it's about communication. Usually the two
coincide, but not always.
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mike -dot- huber -at- software -dot- rockwell -dot- com
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Peter Kelly [SMTP:Peter_Kelly -at- BERCLAIN -dot- COM]
>
> If this is too off-topic for the powers that be, kindly suggest
>a list where I should go. Or let's take it off-line. In any case, in a
>discussion with a colleague I insisted that the word "versioning" does
>not exist in English. I qualified it as technobabble. I haven't found
>this word anywhere in print. As far as I know it is supposed to mean
>version management for software.
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