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Choose your words carefully

Patrick de Gale (Sage de Gale Information Systems Ltd., Tenbury Wells, Worcs WR15 8PJ)

Aslib Proceedings

ISSN: 0001-253X

Article publication date: 1 March 1994

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Abstract

This paper will look in turn at: the place and flow of terminology in the corporation; the attenuation that terms are subject to in the course of that flow; some of the reasons that meanings get altered while words progress from user to user; what actions may help the speedy and correct dissemination of the intended message.

Citation

de Gale, P. (1994), "Choose your words carefully", Aslib Proceedings, Vol. 46 No. 3, pp. 88-92. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb051349

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MCB UP Ltd

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