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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] jargon is bad! :)
From:       "Dr. Robert Marmorstein" <robert () narnia ! homeunix ! com>
Date:       2010-03-22 11:35:03
Message-ID: 201003220735.04148.robert () narnia ! homeunix ! com
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On Monday 22 March 2010 5:41:34 am David Jarvie wrote:

> That may be true for the category of user who is interested and motivated
> enough to look up the term. But for another category (which I suspect
> forms the majority), i.e. those people who don't care about how the system
> works and only want to get their task done, they will just ignore the
> message if at all possible and try to carry on without understanding what
> it said.

I disagree completely.  If the problem is sufficiently serious to merit 
attention almost any user is going to turn first to Google.  And the more 
unusual the term is, the easier it is to sift relevant data out of those 
millions of hits it inevitably finds.

Robert

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