> On Monday 24 January 2011 14:01:10 Katheryne Draven wrote: >> (Office or >> Desktop Publishing, Tools, Utilities, etc etc) > > For those of us of a certain age, Desktop Publishing has a quite specific > meaning: A desktop computer that could be used to publish books. It then > came to mean software that either did or could do that. > > Please don't let's follow the modern trend of mis-using a term, however > inadvertently, and thereby ensuring that the accuracy of our vocabulary > takes > another dive. > > I know that I am a dinosaur, but I watch as the richness of the English > language is dragged ever downwards by text-happy teenagers, and I could > almost weep. :-( > > Lisi I fully agree. Let's try to be as precise as possible within any given context. Tim