RE: I just heard another one

["McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>]

I'm thinking that your thinking might have been momentarily fogged by a stultifying encounter with "transactioning".  Now _that's_ one to make you gag and to cause momentary tearing-up and blurred vision.

I was clubbed with that one recently and was too stunned to even make a witty and scathing retort. In my defense, however, I did barf on his shoes, so he can't be said to have entirely gotten away with it.

 - Kevin

Ron Hearn attempted:
> 
> I did see that entry, I just thought that I hadn't seen the term used that
> often and also thought that it seemed awkward.
> 
> Ron Hearn
> Documentation Specialist
> MemberDirect Product Development
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Combs, Richard [mailto:richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com]
> Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 10:24 AM
> To: Ron Hearn; TECHWR-L
> Subject: RE: I just heard another one
> 
> Ron Hearn wrote:
> 
> > I have heard "efforting" more and more in the media e.g. "We are
> > efforting to contact him..."
> 
> That's an ugly one, and completely unnecessary. What's wrong with
> "attempting," "striving," or "trying"?
> 
> > Another noun-to-verb I am seeing in the documents I edit is
> > "transacting" (to perform a transaction).
> 
> I'm afraid you're off base on that one, Ron. "Transact" has been a
> perfectly good verb with fine, upstanding Latin roots for hundreds of
> years. Here's the Merriam-Webster entry:
> 
> 
> Main Entry:
>     transÂact
> Pronunciation:
>     \tran-Ëzakt, tran(t)-Ësakt\
> Function:
>     verb
> Etymology:
>     Latin transactus, past participle of transigere to drive through,
> complete, transact, from trans- + agere to drive, do â more at agent
> Date:
>     circa 1585
> 
> intransitive verb : to carry on business transitive verb 1 : to carry to
> completion <transact a sale> 2 : to carry on the operation or management
> of : do <transact business>
> 
> Richard


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