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Subject:Re: Pet Peeves From:"Brian S. R. Bennett" <bb18+ -at- ANDREW -dot- CMU -dot- EDU> Date:Sat, 20 Aug 1994 18:59:30 -0400
>Hi! What are your writing pet peeves? What things do
>you make certain that you edit out of your drafts and the
>writing of subject matter experts (SMEs)?
>Please supply others. My dept. is trying to compile a list.
How about:
utilize/utilizing
Windows environment (when refering to GUI in general)
interface (as a verb)
robust
user friendly
facility (although it may be used effectively in some situations)
computerized
program ("application" is better)
A note on these last two: a document written before I arrived at my current
company actually described the application as a "computerized software program."
So a really, really bad sentence would be:
Widget 2.0, available for many windows environments, is a user friendly,
computerized software program that utilizes a robust facility to interface
with the database.
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Brian S. R. Bennett
Senior Information Developer
H. B. Maynard and Company
Eight Parkway Center
Pittsburgh, PA 15220
