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Subject:Re: Are these words being used? From:"Skip Mendler" <wmendler -at- cornetltd -dot- com> To:"Bob Morrisette" <writer1 -at- sabu -dot- EBay -dot- Sun -dot- COM>, "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 8 Nov 1999 10:41:22 -0500
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From: Bob Morrisette <writer1 -at- sabu -dot- EBay -dot- Sun -dot- COM>
To: TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thursday, November 04, 1999 9:37 PM
Subject: RE: Are these words being used?
>A SME wants me to use these words. He says that they are
>commonly used. What do you think?
>
>orderability shippability
We seem to have pretty well stomped the legitimacy of these words into the
ground... Bob, if you could give us a context (like a sample sentence or
two) maybe we can come up with acceptable alternate wordings...
