RE: Don't say what you CANNOT do in documents

Subject: RE: Don't say what you CANNOT do in documents
From: John -dot- Gilger -at- snwa -dot- com
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 10:27:47 -0700



John Posada noted:
" >If a word or usage is "becoming accepted", that
>means to me that there are still some people to
>whom it's not yet acceptable

At what point do we satisfy to those who won't keep up with change at
the expense of others who find the "correct" way strange.

I'm sure there are those out there that know that datum is the correct
form. How many readers, on seeing that usage, will have a mental pause."

Only the uneducated or illiterate.

John Gilger
Publications Specialist
Parsons Water & Infrastructure
(702) 856-5043





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