[TUHS] On computerese

[arnold at skeeve.com]

Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy at dartmouth.edu> wrote:

> But brevity is the defensible argument for "catenate", while
> familiarity boosts "concatenate".

I suspect that only "highly educated east-coasters" are
familiar with "catenate."  My education was pretty good,
but catenate, for all it's advantages of brevity and similar
age to "concatenate" is simply never used in modern-day
American English.

I'd never heard it until, like just about all the rest of
us, I came across it in the Unix manual.

My $.02,

Arnold