On Monday 24 January 2011 14:01:10 Katheryne Draven wrote:
(Office or
Desktop Publishing, Tools, Utilities, etc etc)
For those of us of a certain age, Desktop Publishing has a quite specific
meaning: A desktop computer that could be used to publish books. It then
came to mean software that either did or could do that.
Please don't let's follow the modern trend of mis-using a term, however
inadvertently, and thereby ensuring that the accuracy of our vocabulary takes
another dive.
I know that I am a dinosaur, but I watch as the richness of the English
language is dragged ever downwards by text-happy teenagers, and I could
almost weep. :-(
Lisi