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There is absolutely no reason ever to use "gift" as a verb!


That is all.

Date: 11 Jan 2006 10:58 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] trixtah.livejournal.com
Oh, god, I work in the industry and I have totally given up hope of ever seeing proper English in any material there.

Here's a mild - but still incredibly annoying - example I saw a few months back:
Q37. Why is Compaq changing the colors of its ProLiant servers and racks?
A37. Rather than changing colors, we are leveraging a portion of our color palette – which includes Graphite, Carbon and Silver – across our [...] product lines. This new consistency is the culmination of our strategy to integrate the three heritage businesses of Compaq, Tandem and Digital Equipment Corporation in the enterprise customer space.


So, they don't "change", they "leverage". I'm not sure what colour differences there are between graphite, carbon and silver - I presume one is black. Using "heritage" to refer to the computer industry is something I'm not going to touch with a bargepole. Finally, I can't quite decipher "integrate [stuff] in the enterprise customer space". Perhaps it's translated from German.

Date: 11 Jan 2006 11:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] supergee.livejournal.com
"Heritage" (or sometimes "legacy") means stuff that we're stuck with because it's descended from stuff that used to work. We have a heritage president.

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