pet peeves

Subject: pet peeves
From: Karen Steele <karen -at- BILBO -dot- SUITE -dot- COM>
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 1994 08:41:44 -0500

>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)?

Here are my fave's. I work with programmers who always use:
utilize
facilitate
heterogeneous
replication
orthogonal (the current favorite)
mechanism
legacy

It seems as though they always use a BIG word, when a smaller, easier word would
work.
"The XXX system utiliizes..."
"XXX system uses..."

<sigh>


K. Steele


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