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Subject:Re: Simple Verbiage Question From:"Wesley T. Reisz" <wtreisz -at- RAQUE -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 26 Aug 1999 15:09:40 -0400
Jan,
Here's another one that gets me...
Depress!
Is something wrong with press? ...maybe the button, tool, or device just
needs a good psychiatrist. :)
Wes
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Subject: Re: Simple Verbiage Question
>..."utilize" (and various forms of
>that word), ... are, to me, appropriate
>in marketing literature (and in spoken
>communication) but not in technical writing.
I can't think of a single type of material in which I'd find
"utilize" acceptable. Does it ever mean something that "use"
doesn't?
