Friday, November 06, 2009

There's more!

I was reading an email in which this person kept using the word "performant":

"If you tune the server right, it will be more performant."

"It's more performant this way."

www.dictionary.com definition

Main Entry: performant
Part of Speech: n
Definition: a performer
Etymology: based on informant, etc.
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And a colleague revealed another favourite term used by our neighbours on the continent - "prepone":

"I'd like to prepone the meeting to Monday instead of Tuesday."

And suprisingly, there's an entry on dictionary.com for it although I'm not sure which source:

Main Entry: prepone
Part of Speech: v
Definition: to place in front of, to schedule for an earlier time; cf. postpone
Dictionary.com's 21st Century Lexicon
Copyright © 2003-2009 Dictionary.com, LLC
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