"Performant"
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... is not a word. Well at least according to dictionaries. That's strange because I use it quite a lot and I've heard it used quite a lot. But then of course English is not my native language so I don't really have an accurate idea. How about you?
Cheers, Mircea "Pay people peanuts and you get monkeys" - David Ogilvy
I've never understood why someone would want to use the word when "it performs better" is so much clearer and saner than "it is more performant". It's use, to me, is indicitive of the person using it losing track of their thoughts and getting lost in a quagmire of buziness speke.
cheers, Chris Maunder
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... is not a word. Well at least according to dictionaries. That's strange because I use it quite a lot and I've heard it used quite a lot. But then of course English is not my native language so I don't really have an accurate idea. How about you?
Cheers, Mircea "Pay people peanuts and you get monkeys" - David Ogilvy
It might not be in the OED [^]yet but I've seen it used quite often. Trouble is I think if we accept that it's a word, it's being used incorrectly if we apply similar patterns from other english words. It could be the opposite of a performer, i.e. the audience. But mostly I think if it was a word it would refer to the idea of the quality of performance, the the actual performance itself, so it would be like saying "This computer has performance" and leaving out the qualifier. (Of course the OED just added the word "girlcott" this month so I'm starting to wonder if it's losing it's "definitiveness" that they have alwasy enjoyed for so long)
"The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying." - David Ogilvy
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... is not a word. Well at least according to dictionaries. That's strange because I use it quite a lot and I've heard it used quite a lot. But then of course English is not my native language so I don't really have an accurate idea. How about you?
Cheers, Mircea "Pay people peanuts and you get monkeys" - David Ogilvy
Why use someone else's made-up word when you can make up your own? Performative Performatious