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From: psfales@ihlpl.UUCP (Peter Fales)
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Subject: Re: the (non)word "functionality"
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Date: Wed, 8-Oct-86 10:08:41 EDT
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> > What could I use instead  (features?
> > functionalism???) in phrases like  "a description of a system's 
> > functionality", "this product has more functionality"?
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> 
> For "this product has more functionality" read "this product works better"
> 
This doesn't sound the same to me.  To me, "this product has more
functionality" seems to say "this product does more things for you" rather
than "this product works better."  Sometimes these may mean the same
thing. (I like the word functionality.)

Peter Fales
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