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Weeeeellll… Maybe. But “affinitize” doesn’t bother me. It’s a useful word, immediately descriptive of its meaning. In fact, I was surprised not to find “affinitize” in the dictionary. This is how the language grows. Perhaps it makes sense as a computer science only term?
I don’t know, it all comes down to a matter of personal taste, doesn’t it.
I DO have lots of trouble with other word uses: “Actionable” feedback is one of my pet peeves… though, believe it or not, the non-legal meaning has found its way into at least one dictionary. And I’ve often complained, to anyone who’d listen, of what I find to be Windows XP’s most annoying message EVER: “Windows is starting up”. I didn’t realize “up” needed to be started. Who wrote this, and why weren’t they satisfied with “Windows is starting”?
Peter
OSR
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