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From: bilbo.geoff@SEAS.UCLA.EDU (Geoff Kuenning)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: The non-word "feep"
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Date: 5 May 88 23:29:34 GMT
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In many places in the X documentation, the non-word "feep" is used.  Appended
to each usage, in parentheses, is the defining word "bell".

As far as I can tell, there is no reason for this unnecessary jargon beyond
somebody's desire to be clever and use non-standard invented words.  In this
case, the jargon doesn't even define a useful concept, as demonstrated by
the necessity of defining it with the previously-used terms "bell" or "beep"
whenever it is used.

With the next release of X, would it be too much to ask to have someone
globally replace "feep" with "beep"?

	Geoff Kuenning	geoff@lcc.ucla.edu	geoff@ITcorp.com