Richard Steven's Macros

2024-09-14 Thread Damian McGuckin
Can somebody point me at the macros to which people refer that Steven's used in his book please? Thanks - Damian

Re: On computerese

2024-09-14 Thread Damian McGuckin
On Sun, 15 Sep 2024, hoh...@posteo.de wrote: 'catenate' is missing in Oxford learners and Oxford Compact Dictionary as well. It's objected by my mail client also. Seems to be American English. 'concatenate' seems to be a more common technical term. I learned it in study. Oxford mentioned it t

Re: On computerese

2024-09-14 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 15 September 2024 at 0:38:37 +, hoh...@posteo.de wrote: > > 'catenate' is missing in Oxford learners and Oxford Compact Dictionary > as well. It's objected by my mail client also. Seems to be American > English. Sadly many dictionaries omit less common words. As Doug says, both ar

Re: On computerese

2024-09-14 Thread Kusoneko
Sep 14, 2024 20:39:44 hoh...@posteo.de: > BTW, what's that: 'computerese'? It seems to me that it's an academic term to use to shame users of computer technical terms into trying to use more generic English terms. I'd add that I personally find it a bit hypocritical as most fields have their own