RE: "Gage"

Subject: RE: "Gage"
From: "Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>
To: "Downing, David" <DavidDowning -at- users -dot- com>, "Lauren" <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net>, <quills -at- airmail -dot- net>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:51:59 -0700

Downing, David wrote:

> I would call it "sending a message," although I concede that then you
> have three words instead of one. As I said before, I can't bring
myself
> to write about "decisioning a loan." I still feel compelled to write,
> "making a decision on a loan," and I'll keep doing that until our
editor
> tells me it's not acceptable.

I agree wholeheartedly regarding "decisioning," but it and "messaging"
aren't really analogous.

"Decisioning" is an abomination because it's a verbification where none
was needed. There's already a perfectly good verb for expressing that
concept: "deciding"

OTOH, the verbing of "message" and "text" is much more defensible
because it lets us express new concepts more concisely. "Texting" is to
"sending a text message" as "deciding" is to "making a decision."

Richard


Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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Re: "Gage": From: quills
RE: "Gage": From: Downing, David

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