http://www.contented.com/contented/2009/tip-use-the-same-word-for-the-same-thing Content that makes people happy Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:14:04 +1300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://www.contented.com/contented/2009/tip-use-the-same-word-for-the-same-thing/comment-page-1#comment-2966 Rachel Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:23:40 +0000 http://www.contented.com/contented/?p=968#comment-2966 Oh boy, what a great example. I suspect people use multiple terms for other reasons too (apart from "creativity"). Often they don't know which term is correct so they cover all the options. Or maybe they think if they use several different terms, we are more likely to get it. But of course the opposite is true. Thanks, Marc. Oh boy, what a great example. I suspect people use multiple terms for other reasons too (apart from “creativity”). Often they don’t know which term is correct so they cover all the options. Or maybe they think if they use several different terms, we are more likely to get it. But of course the opposite is true. Thanks, Marc.

]]> http://www.contented.com/contented/2009/tip-use-the-same-word-for-the-same-thing/comment-page-1#comment-2965 Marc Achtelig Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:53:28 +0000 http://www.contented.com/contented/?p=968#comment-2965 You are so right. Nothing can make technical documentation, for example, more confusing than different words for the same thing. I recently did a technical documentation project for a company that used more than 10(!) different terms for the same thing. The confusion was so perfect that even the developers didn't know what to search for and ended up using the wrong procedures for the wrong things... Unless you are a novelist, using the same word all over again is not a sin, it is a virtue. You are so right. Nothing can make technical documentation, for example, more confusing than different words for the same thing. I recently did a technical documentation project for a company that used more than 10(!) different terms for the same thing. The confusion was so perfect that even the developers didn’t know what to search for and ended up using the wrong procedures for the wrong things… Unless you are a novelist, using the same word all over again is not a sin, it is a virtue.

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