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Every Mac user knows software never crashes; "The application 'whatever'
has unexpectedly quit."
Barry House
On Thursday, July 16, 1998 1:07 PM, John Prince [SMTP:prince1 -at- WEBTV -dot- NET]
wrote:
> Would someone help me find a more (marketing) politically correct word
> for "crash" . . . as in when a software crashes.
>
> I'm thinking of using the term "interrupted." For example, "If for
some
> reason (name of software) is interrupted and shuts down, you can . . .
"
>
> Any other suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> thanks
>
> John
>http://members.tripod.com/~princej/DC.html (The Great Dallas Cowboys)
>
>
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