atw: Re: OT? Term for annoying features
- From: Michael Edward Granat <megranat@xxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 14:52:43 +1000 (EST)
Dear Craig (Hadden),
I would use it in all of my manuals from this day forward, except that I might
unintentionally misspell it.
...and I most certainly not dare let the Microsloth Weird Autocorrect or the
Weird Spilling Chocker get a hold of it!
Besides, the word on which it is based is one of those horridly contrived and
contorted blobs of IT jargon that doesn\'t even appear as a word in most real
(printed) English (Brit or Aus English, not sUS English) dictionaries.
Cheers,
Michael Granat
Write Ideas
Quoting Craig Hadden <CraigH@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Below is a genuine typo made some time ago by someone I work with.
>
> I reckon it deserves to be introduced industry-wide as a term for
> software
> features that do annoying things.
>
> The term is \"fucntionality\".
>
> Regards,
> Craig
>
Michael Granat
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