RE: cross section vs cross-sectional - what about cross sectionedandcross sectioning

["Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>]

McLauchlan, Kevin wrote:

> > There have been a few changes since the 70s, though. :-o
> 
> Stop picking on us old farts, you brute!

Hah! Care to wager on which of us is older and fartier? ;-)
 
> I wonder how many of us on this list are writing for audiences that
> include substantial numbers who don't use computers.
> 
> Or... are there many computer users left who don't use Google?
> 
> Or... d'ye think y'd need more than the fingers of two hands to
enumerate
> the writers who DON'T use computers for their writing these days?
And
> then see my previous question...

Ah, but a Google search doesn't find the writings of people who use
computers or people who use Google. It finds the writings of people
whose words somehow ended up on the internet -- bloggers, forum posters,
reporters, opinion columnists, narcissists, people selling something,
authors of books in the public domain, ... 

There is a very small overlap between the people whose writings are on
the internet and the audience for which I'm writing, and determining
whether a word is widely used by the former is not a sure-fire way to
determine whether it's understood and accepted by the latter. 

OTOH, since I almost never meet any of the latter, I tend to rely on
instinct, online dictionaries, and tea leaves. :-} 

Merry Christmas from snowy Denver!


Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
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