Re: end user vs end-user
nosnivel -at- netvision -dot- net -dot- il wrote:
Don't end user documentation! Please continue end-user documentation.
If your users use ends, then produce documentation
for end-users. If your users use anything else,
then produce documentation for end users.
(The last type of user in the chain is the
end user, not the end-user, just as the last
Rockette in the line is the end Rockette, not
the end-Rockette.)
Cute. And accurate as far as it goes. But I question the need for the word _end_; why not just _user_? I cannot think of a single circumstance in which "end user" conveys more information than "user."
Indeed. "End user" seems one of those things that is centered on
the product and how it was designed rather than on the customer and
the customer's needs.
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