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Subject:Re: Obviscate. Huh? From:Karen_Mayer -dot- TOUCH_TECHNOLOGY -at- NOTES -dot- COMPUSERVE -dot- COM Date:Mon, 29 Jan 1996 17:04:28 EST
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Dear WandaJane: What did you mean by obviscate?
Bill Sullivan
bsullivan -at- deltecpower -dot- com
>>> WandaJane Phillips <wandajp -at- andyne -dot- on -dot- ca> - 1/25/96 10:35 AM >>>
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I think it's an over-reaction to how obviscated guides can be...
probably nobody on *this* list has ever written such a guide, but it
is true that one of the factors behind my decision to take up
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Probably "obfuscated." Maybe a better word would be "ambiguous?" "Confusing?" Or
some other word -- spelled correctly -- that
has the same meaning, but without the potential confusion. One meaning of
obfuscate is "to make obscure." If the guides
were really "made obscured," one would think it was done on purpose.
