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Subject:RE: "advance" vs "advanced" From:"McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com> To:"Stuart Burnfield" <slb -at- westnet -dot- com -dot- au> Date:Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:04:22 -0500
Or, to pick up from something in your reply:
You process fish with a fish knife, so pre-processing of fish is
called.....
Wait for it.....
Wait for it....
Fishing. :-)
- K
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stuart Burnfield [mailto:slb -at- westnet -dot- com -dot- au]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 12:02 AM
> To: McLauchlan, Kevin
> Cc: Techwr-l
> Subject: Re: "advance" vs "advanced"
>
> I think preprocessing is a different kettle of fish from
> pre-prepared, pre-approved, etc. There are the standard
> processing steps, and there are some other steps (maybe
> validation, conversion, reconciliation) that you might do to
> get your data or whatever it is in the right shape to be
> processed. Yes, it's all processing, but it's useful to
> distinguish between the standard processing and the optional
> or variable steps you might need to before that.
>
> Stuart
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kevin McLauchlan" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>
> But, I suppose a case can be made that if your frammistan is
> pre-jiggered, then it has not so much been jiggered already, as it's
> been jiggered in preliminary (tentative? slapdash?
> haphazard?) fashion.
>
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