| Title: | The Joy of Lex |
| Notice: | A Notes File even your grammar could love |
| Moderator: | THEBAY::SYSTEM |
| Created: | Fri Feb 28 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1192 |
| Total number of notes: | 42769 |
What is the proper usage of the words "catenate" and "concatenate"? All the dictionaries I have looked in make them out to be completely synonymous, as near as I can tell. A still, small voice in me wants to say that you catenate two lists, but you concatenate one list with another. Beyond two lists, I'm totally at sea. Any replies may be either catentated or contatenated to or with this base note, at the respondent's discretion. Bill
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| 935.1 | ESGWST::RDAVIS | Just aphasia going through | Fri Dec 13 1991 10:06 | 8 | |
From the Latin roots, it's the difference between "chained" and
"chained together". Similar problem with "mingle" vs. "commingle".
I'd just use the more common of the two words, "concatenate", in
documentation. Don't use both in one piece of writing; that would imply
a difference which isn't there.
Ray
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| 935.2 | JIT081::DIAMOND | Order temporarily out of personal name | Sun Dec 15 1991 18:35 | 7 | |
>Don't use both in one piece of writing;
Yeah! If you use both "catenate" and "concatenate" in one piece
of writing, then someone else will retaliate by using both "mingle"
and "commingle" in one piece of writing. And before you know it,
it will be "flammable" and "inflammable." So cease and desist
before it begins to get started.
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