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List:       kde-edu-devel
Subject:    Re: [kde-edu-devel] Re:  "Edutainment"
From:       Andy Fawcett <andy () athame ! co ! uk>
Date:       2002-12-05 12:33:42
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On Thursday 05 December 2002 14:26, Neil Stevens wrote:
> On Thursday December 05, 2002 04:19, Andy Fawcett wrote:
> > The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (09 FEB 02) [foldoc]
> >
> > edutainment
> >
> >    <application> Interactive education and entertainment services
> >    or software, usually supplied commercially via a cable network
> >    or on CD-ROM.
> >
> >    (1995-03-30)
> >
> > If that date is when it was placed in foldoc, it's hardly new.
>
> A dictionary of jargon is an inappropriate reference for this
> context, though.

Not inappropriate, but nowhere near the most appropriate either.

> As for my checks, it's not in in the printed
> Webster's 10th Collegiate (which is what I have in my bookshelf),
> it's in the online American Heritage Dictionary, and and the online
> OED (not American, but not bad to check anyway) isn't available
> without a fee.

Hmm, I just found it in Merriam-Webster Online (www.m-w.com) too, which 
I could have *sworn* I'd checked before and it wasn't there!


> > > Can we please change that to "Education?"  Or anything, as long
> > > as it's a real word?
> >
> > See above.
> >
> > Personally though, I don't like it either!
>
> Oh, good.

Heh, don't worry, I'm not in confrontational mode this week ;)

A.

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andy@athame.co.uk |      we wouldn't need Windows and Gates."
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