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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
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0 00I'm writing about the longevity of a technological product, I want the last word of this excerpt to be a word. Apparently it is not. What would you recommend? I do have a few rather "clunky" rewrites but I'm afraid I'm rather partial to my own style and would rather have a good word than a rephrasing...02br
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00"How will its own characteristics and technical merits, its future-proofing against supersession...?"02br
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00PS the word is a "logical" extrapolation of supersede, if it seemed gibberish02br
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00Thanks very much02br
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00Neil of the Sliver Tongue (sic)02br
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0 Beautiful, thank you. I was just pondering exactly how illiterate the use of "surpassion" would make me appear. Rather, I feel.0-
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0"Supersession" is a real word but it's not one that a native English speaker would use or even understand. I guess it's obsolete! 05002br
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00Def: supersession (as in "supersedure") n. : act of replacing one person or thing by another especially one held to be superior 010id5
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0 Ooops, sorry. I didn't realise I was anonymous! 0-
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