Re: The word "documentation"

Subject: Re: The word "documentation"
From: Barbara Karst-Sabin <Phillinion -at- AOL -dot- COM>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 18:50:54 EDT

In a message dated 98-06-23 15:46:34 EDT, mxd2 -at- OSI -dot- COM writes:

<< Websters' first (and most applicable) definition for "documentation" is
this: "the act or an instance of furnishing or authenticating with
documents." >>

Just another instance of the sometimes annoying evolution of the language. Be
grateful you don't work for the military (I hope) where you are preparing
documentation on "equipments." AAAARGH!!!

That drove me nuts, and, when I tried to explain why that was wrong, people
just looked at me as though I were speaking a alien tongue. Perhaps I
was...to them.

BJ




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