Re: Slightly off-topic--"versioning"

["Duncan C. Kinder" <dckinder -at- AHCBSD1 -dot- OVNET -dot- COM>]

What would you have us do?  Go back to Beowulf?

New words develop all the time.

If a group of letters which represent a sound serve adequately to transmit
meaning from the speaker/author to the listener/reader, then it is a word.
Dictionary or no.

Duncan C. Kinder
dckinder -at- ovnet -dot- com


-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Kelly <Peter_Kelly -at- BERCLAIN -dot- COM>
To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU <TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU>
Date: Friday, November 07, 1997 5:12 PM
Subject: Slightly off-topic--"versioning"


>Hello everybody,
>
>        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.
>
>
>
>
>        BaaN
>        Peter Kelly, Technical Writer
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