Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 14:14:54 -0700 From: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> To: Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net>, doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: "Administrate" vs. "Administer" Message-ID: <20030519211453.GA90693@wopr.caltech.edu> In-Reply-To: <20030519205208.GD74816@submonkey.net> References: <20030519205208.GD74816@submonkey.net>
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On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 09:52:08PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote: > While technically this is correct, I think that "administering the spooler" > reads better; any objections to my changing it? I strongly prefer "administer," and generally eschew the gratuitous longification of words. (I'd always assumed that "administrate" was a neologism, but the OED lists usages in this sense since 1639. Still, it always sounds clumsy to me.) -- Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> * Science rules. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ *
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