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From: garys@bunker.UUCP (Gary M. Samuelson)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Poor English (here too)
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Date: Wed, 20-Mar-85 10:03:35 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 20 10:03:35 1985
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> > > Don't worry about "orientate" -- the biggest problem is the word
> > > "initialize" which every computer person really and truly believes
> > > is a genuine word!
> > > Doug Pardee -- Terak Corp. -- !{hao,ihnp4,decvax}!noao!terak!doug

> > Frightening.  As one who prides myself on striving for reasonable English,
> > I checked this in my Webster's New Universal, and "initialize" is not there!
> > John Woods

> 	Hmm, it's not in my (1978) American Heritage Dictionary
> either.
> Don Steiny

Take heart; "initialize" appears in Webster's New Collegiate
Dictionary, 1981:
	initialize (vt): to set (as a computer program counter)
	to a starting position or value.

Now, who can justify the use of "functionality" ?

Gary Samuelson
ittvax!bunker!garys

PS: Doug's implication that every computer person is illiterate
is not true.