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Nit: it's "verb in participle form". A gerund is when -ing verb is used as
a noun. ;-P
-T
On Friday, January 17, 2014, McLauchlan, Kevin <
Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com> wrote:
> He has a thing for gerunds. :-)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gene Kim-Eng
> Sent: January-16-14 1:11 AM
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com <javascript:;>
> Subject: Re: something like "disposition"
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> "Data destruction" is already a widely used industry term. Why not just
> use that?
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> Gene Kim-Eng
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> On 1/15/2014 7:09 PM, McLauchlan, Kevin wrote:
> > I'm looking for a word.
> >
> > My cow-orker has a section title "Removing/Destroying Content for Safe
> Disposal".
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