Re: [OT] Is "Authentification" a Real Word?

From: Lik Mai Sak (cuddlybear101@yahoo.com)
Date: 04/27/02 

From: Lik Mai Sak <cuddlybear101@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 08:58:55 +1000

Totengräber wrote:

> I have some people that I work with who insist in using the term
> "authentification" when referring to any kind of user/password
> exchange. Every time I hear them use this term, my mind freaks out
> with the sudden urge to correct them. Personally, I've never heard of
> this "word" and I'm pretty sure they mean to say "authentication". I
> mean, who has ever heard the word "authentificate" as opposed to
> "authenticate"? If someone could tell me if this is a real word and
> its definition, I'd greatly appreciate it.
> Thanks,
> Todd Dunn

During a new network install (new building, new cables, new toys, new
everything!) I had one consultant (aka overpaid idiot) consistently
pronounce cache as 'cashay', and use it at least once in every sentence.
I believe his body still rests peacefully behind a section of wall in the
AC plant room.
S'funny how things which are irrelevant annoy us to distraction. 

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E.

What better way to demoralise,
When your own children are your spies... J. Belladonna