[Offtopic] Inferencing (Was: Re: packages, not package systems (was Taking Ownership of Squeak(WAS Re: Python at Disney)))
Tim Rowledge
tim at sumeru.stanford.edu
Thu Mar 15 16:12:37 UTC 2001
Russell Allen <russell.allen at firebirdmedia.com> is widely believed to have written:
> I'll have you know that I had a academic paper rejected for a conference
> just the other day because, amongst other reasons:
>
> > There is no English word "inferencing". The English word is "inference"
Quite right. This american tendancy toward verbing every noun must be
haltated.
tim
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