User-friendly -- NOT!

Subject: User-friendly -- NOT!
From: Michael LaTorra <mikel -at- ACCUGRAPH -dot- COM>
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 17:53:02 MST

Beverly Parks asked about the use of "user friendly" which she
believes to be passe. I agree. Like many terms that started
out well, it has become an old, tired, and abused shaddow of
its formerly robust self. In other words, it no longer means
much.

I've been assiduously replacing it in our documentation at every
opportunity with terms such as the following:

- enhanced
- powerful
- easy-to-use
- multi-functional
- comprehensive

If anyone on this list has more synonyms of this sort to share,
I'd appreciate hearing about them.


Live long & prosper,
Mike LaTorra

Documentation Supervisor
Accugraph Inc.
mikel -at- accugraph -dot- com
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and not necessarily those of my ][ are still superstitions -- and they
company -- but they probably ][ have a lot of them. The real ques-
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][ them after their nostrums have
][ failed time and time again."
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