Re: Clearing the check marks

["Kathleen MacDowell" <kathleen -at- writefortheuser -dot- com>]

Interesting that "make sure" is approved for Simplified English but
ensure and verify aren't. I'd have thought that make sure is extremely
colloquial and or vague.

Kathleen

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Andrew Warren <awarren -at- synaptics -dot- com> wrote:
> Boudreaux, M (GE Healthcare, consultant) wrote:
>
>> "Verify" has a scientific meaning and a regulatory meaning,
>> so I need to avoid that.
>
>    And it also means "test" rather than "cause to be".
>
>> "Make sure" was in one of my original examples, but I am
>> concerned about it being folksy and colloquial, and thus
>> not good for translation or for people for whom English
>> is a second language.
>
>    "Make sure" is suggested by the Simplified English
>    standard as an approved alternative to the non-approved
>    "ensure", so it's good enough for ESL aircraft mechanics...
>
>    -Andrew
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