Re: end user vs end-user

Subject: Re: end user vs end-user
From: Dick Margulis <margulis -at- fiam -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 10:53:20 -0400




Goober Writer wrote:

Cute. And accurate as far as it goes. But I question
the need for the word _end_; why not just _user_? I cannot think of a
single circumstance in which "end user" conveys more information than
"user."


Unless the user actually does use ends. Hmmm, sounds
like a South Park in the making (with or without crab
people).
I used to work in a deli. We had a guy who stretched his food budget by coming in every week and asking us for ends. He was an end user. But we didn't need to write a manual--or a cookbook--for him. He knew exactly what he was doing.

Anyway, I'm still in favor of "you", literal
or implied.


It is perfectly reasonable, in an administrator manual, to refer in the third person to users.

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