24 Jan
2011
24 Jan
'11
12:18 p.m.
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