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Subject:Re: Need help with a term From:Tracy Boyington <tracy_boyington -at- okvotech -dot- org> To:TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 12 May 2000 10:31:17 -0500
> Rant: Now if you really want to use a geeky term, try Submit or Commit
> instead of Save. As an earlier poster stated, these terms should be banished
> from GUIs and docs aimed at average users.
OK, so I'll ask again -- what's wrong with "submit?" I'm not arguing, I'm
asking, because I really do not know.
> I guess I don't understand how a
> tech writer who is interested in clear communication with their average user
> audience would opt for introducing terms such as Submit or Commit when the
> perfectly good and clearly understandable Save is already available and used
> in a gazillion applications.
To me, in the case presented, the user was not saving the changes, they were
submitting them to some higher power. I guess I just over-analyzed it.
Tracy
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Tracy Boyington mailto:tracy_boyington -at- okvotech -dot- org
Oklahoma Department of Vocational & Technical Education
Stillwater, Oklahoma http://www.okvotech.org/cimc
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