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Opinion sought
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Jan
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9th
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2004
09:40 am
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Date:
2004-01-09 02:39 am (UTC)
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Well, if you let me know the official, will-nilly-free process for getting a new word when one is required, I'll follow it :)
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Date:
2004-01-09 02:49 am (UTC)
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Sadly yet to be fully developed in this country as it is in France, where they actually have an Academy that decides these things (like whether to accept "le hotdog" and "le Big Mac"). Sometimes I think this country is so backward.....
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2004-01-09 02:59 am (UTC)
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Yeuch, the last thing we want is an Academie Anglaise.
Let's face it, I
like
making words up willy-nilly :)
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2004-01-09 03:09 am (UTC)
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I'd want it if that's what it was going to be called.
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2004-01-09 03:43 am (UTC)
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arralethe.livejournal.com
Well, in that case, why are you asking our opinion? Just go for it, girl! ;)
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2004-01-09 03:54 am (UTC)
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Because, sad though it is, when I'm writing documentation which customers might read, I'm obliged to stick to extant words :(
And I wish to know whether I have legitimate grounds for taking issue with the person who's used the word "endianity" in the document I'm editing :)
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Date: 2004-01-09 02:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-09 02:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-09 02:59 am (UTC)Let's face it, I like making words up willy-nilly :)
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Date: 2004-01-09 03:09 am (UTC)I'd want it if that's what it was going to be called.
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Date: 2004-01-09 03:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-09 03:54 am (UTC)And I wish to know whether I have legitimate grounds for taking issue with the person who's used the word "endianity" in the document I'm editing :)