[Info-vax] HP stopping VMS paper documentation ?

Richard B. Gilbert rgilbert88 at comcast.net
Sat Dec 17 09:00:44 EST 2011


On 12/16/2011 11:02 PM, AEF wrote:
> On Dec 16, 4:19 pm, "Richard B. Gilbert"<rgilber... at comcast.net>
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>> On 12/16/2011 9:23 AM, Bob Koehler wrote:
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>>> In article<d99b6905-8568-44d6-8930-73a3a86d7... at m7g2000vbc.googlegroups.com>, AEF<spamsink2... at yahoo.com>    writes:
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>>>> Merriam Webster.
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>>>> Why not?
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>>>> What would you recommend?
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>>>      Check again.  Webster came up with a style of dictionary, and just
>>>      about all publishers use it.
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>>>      On the cover page of the dictionary you can find out who actually
>>>      published it.  They may not actually be Merriam Webster.  And they
>>>      are responsible for the content.
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>>>      Sometimes the publisher will include a discussion of what
>>>      self-proclaimed experts wrote the content.  Sometimes they just hack
>>>      something togther that they can sell, and the content is amaizingly
>>>      poor.
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>>>      And even M-W is wrong sometimes.
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>> Some dictionaries include deliberate errors for the purpose of proving
>> Copyright infringement!
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> Say what? Can you give some examples?
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> AEF

Not without more research than I'm willing to do.  I read it somewhere 
but I don't recall exactly where!





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