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Mekon
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| Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 7:00 am
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I have the word 'certificated' next to a date on a certificate sent to me by
a financial organisation. I can find the word in an Oxford Reference
Dictionary, but not in my aging SOED.
What is the difference between 'certificated' and 'certified'.
Mekon
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| Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 7:00 am
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"Mekon" <blankotanko@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:mK6Te.24174$FA3.16411@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
| Quote: | I have the word 'certificated' next to a date on a certificate sent to me
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a financial organisation. I can find the word in an Oxford Reference
Dictionary, but not in my aging SOED.
What is the difference between 'certificated' and 'certified'.
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One extera beurocratical syllabubble. In the US,
the Fedemeral Aviational Adminsteration requires
the use of this extera beuarocratical syllabubble
for all aerioplanes, aeriodromes, and piyolots
who have earned any kind of aviational surferticket. |
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meirman
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| Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 7:01 am
Post subject: Re: Certificated |
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In alt.english.usage on Tue, 06 Sep 2005 01:59:46 GMT "Mekon"
<blankotanko@hotmail.com> posted:
| Quote: | I have the word 'certificated' next to a date on a certificate sent to me by
a financial organisation. I can find the word in an Oxford Reference
Dictionary, but not in my aging SOED.
What is the difference between 'certificated' and 'certified'.
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The first one is used by moronic financial organizations that one
would be taking a big risk if he invested money in it.
s/ meirman
Posting from alt.english.usage
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My English in this reply is colloquial, and may not always use full sentences.
For gosh sakes, when you ask a question, say what sort of English you are asking about.
When you give an answer, say in what part of the world you think your answer is valid.
If you are emailing me please
say if you are posting the same response.
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| Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 6:12 pm
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Mekon wrote:
| Quote: | I have the word 'certificated' next to a date on a certificate sent to me by
a financial organisation. I can find the word in an Oxford Reference
Dictionary, but not in my aging SOED.
What is the difference between 'certificated' and 'certified'.
You can be certified (as having some skill, for example) without |
physically having a piece of paper called a certificate. You might just
be inscribed in an official list somewhere.
As a shorthand way of saying "certified and in possession of the
requisite piece of paper", some bureaucrat invented the word
"certificated". It serves its purpose well.
Gary |
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M. J. Powell
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| Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 8:17 pm
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In message <1126008730.775692.48530@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
gvellenzer@gmail.com writes
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Mekon wrote:
I have the word 'certificated' next to a date on a certificate sent to me by
a financial organisation. I can find the word in an Oxford Reference
Dictionary, but not in my aging SOED.
What is the difference between 'certificated' and 'certified'.
You can be certified (as having some skill, for example) without
physically having a piece of paper called a certificate. You might just
be inscribed in an official list somewhere.
As a shorthand way of saying "certified and in possession of the
requisite piece of paper", some bureaucrat invented the word
"certificated". It serves its purpose well.
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It seems a bit illogical to me. If he has the certificate why write
'certificated' on it. He knows very that he has a certificate and so
does anyone else that he shows it to.
Mike
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| Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 8:00 pm
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M. J. Powell wrote:
| Quote: | It seems a bit illogical to me. If he has the certificate why write
'certificated' on it. He knows very that he has a certificate and so
does anyone else that he shows it to.
Neither bureaucracy nor language are logical systems. |
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| Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 9:57 pm
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gvellenzer@gmail.com wrote:
| Quote: | M. J. Powell wrote:
It seems a bit illogical to me. If he has the certificate why write
'certificated' on it. He knows very that he has a certificate and so
does anyone else that he shows it to.
Neither bureaucracy nor language are logical systems.
Especially when used by the certifiably insane. |
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