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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:
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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The opinions expressed are my own, ][ "The superstitions of intellectuals
and not necessarily those of my ][ are still superstitions -- and they
company -- but they probably ][ have a lot of them. The real ques-
should be. ][ tion is why we keep listening to
][ them after their nostrums have
][ failed time and time again."
][ -- Thomas Sowell
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