Re: word usage

Subject: Re: word usage
From: Roy Jacobsen <rjacobse -at- GREATPLAINS -dot- COM>
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 15:23:04 -0600

I would pay real cash money to see what that MCE thingy looked like. Sounds
like it was an invaluable resource. Is it (or a near facsimile) available to
us grunts?

Scott Havens [mailto:SHavens -at- ELCOTEL -dot- COM] writes:
>Anyway, Xerox had its own propriety "dictionary" known as
>"Multinational Customized English (MCE)." One of the big features of
>MCE was that, whenever possible, a given word was limited to one meaning
>and was allowed to function as only one part of speech. Obviously,
>there were a few exceptions (words that simply could not be constrained
>that much). You also would have had a problem using MCE for casual
>conversation, given its limitations, but you _could_ write technical
>documentation in it.

Roy M. Jacobsen
Editor
Great Plains
rjacobse -at- greatplains -dot- com

Read and revise, reread and revise, keep reading and revising until your
text seems adequate to your thought. -- Jacques Barzun


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