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Prioritise is worse than informatics, in my opinion.
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Prioritise is worse than informatics, in my opinion.And an opinion of rare taste and discernment it is. 
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This is one case where they managed to lend us a word, in lieu of vice-versa .
Didn't we borrow quite a bit when the French came over and ruled Britain for a bit at the beginning of the millennium?
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jimdog asks: Didn't we borrow quite a bit when the French came over and ruled Britain for a bit at the beginning of the millennium?
Yeahbut, what have they done for us lately?
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Yeahbut, what have they done for us lately?
Well, for you USns, they did take Jerry Lewis off your hands.
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MaxQ sez: they did take Jerry Lewis off your hands
Good point Max!
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Informatics is NOT a synonym for information science. In foreign languages (e.g. Emanuela's Italian), it conveys a more general idea of "computing", but here it means "the use of computing to organise information", and is used in relation to particular areas, e.g. libraries, medical science, art, etc., where special processes are used to meet the needs of the users in that area.
There may be arguments over their usage, but not within the industry.
We dealt with technical terms in another ("compactified") thread. Arguing over them has no point, they exist and they're in use. Get over it.
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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The Gooseberry Duke (Chinese) tells us, regarding technical terms: Arguing over them has no point, they exist and they're in use. Get over it.
Amen, brother!
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We dealt with technical terms in another ("compactified") thread. Arguing over them has no point, they exist and they're in use. Get over it.
Agreed - but acceptance of usage doesn't mean that we have to like it. And saying that you don't like it does make you feel better. As MaxQ kindly said to me IAT, "Tetch away ..."
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We dealt with technical terms in another ("compactified") thread. Arguing over them has no point, they exist and they're in use. Get over it.Then, what are you guys doing here?  Yet nobody dealt *much for that BS tech word 'functionality'...  (CK, I'm sure you'll finish varnishing your cupboards before you leave  ) ...acceptance of usage doesn't mean that we have to like it. And saying that you don't like it does make you feel better...Oh, now I know why you're here! 
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