atw: Re: Clone vs Clone

Hi Peter,

I'm all for colourful language - in the appropriate place. And I do prefer
to understand the historical roots of words.

But when instructing people about computer operations, I still thinks it's
better to keep the language simple - single cylinder words, if possible.
Once one starts Germanification, to which our lords and masters of the grub
shrub variety seem so inextricably wedded, then a whole new lexicon needs to
be printed. Crikey, it's only a bluddy computer - mostly monolithically
rule-bound and totally non-interactive - so why try to pretty it up with
anthropomorphic concepts - even metaphors - its designers will never even
dream about?

Brian.


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