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Yes, but somebody adding it to wiktionary doesn't make it a word. It just seems lazy to make up new words rather that taking the trouble to use an existing one.
by phren0logy 16y ago
Yes, but somebody adding it to wiktionary doesn't make it a word. It just seems lazy to make up new words rather that taking the trouble to use an existing one.
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=performant&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3 http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=performant&ye...
I wonder if the early appearance is OCR error?
- shawndumas 16y agoActually my point in posting the qoute and the link was to show that it's jargon. Anyhow do you have an issue with scalable[1] too? ---- [1]: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Scalable&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3 http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Scalable&year...
- spoondan 16y agoIt being used makes it a word. Words get added to dictionaries often. Where do you think they came from to begin with?