Timeline for "Synced" or "Synchronized"?
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| Jan 13, 2018 at 2:51 | comment | added | Nigel J | I use 'synched' in my reports - 'I synched my voice recorder to the CCTV image'. | |
| Jan 12, 2018 at 14:21 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jan 12, 2018 at 14:04 | comment | added | Drew | Define "computing context". Know your audience. Respect whatever style guide you're using. If you're not using a style guide then it's up to you. Primarily opinion-based. | |
| Jan 12, 2018 at 13:52 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
| Dec 18, 2017 at 9:32 | comment | added | gracacs | I did take the tour, it talks about having trouble choosing one word over the other. This is the case. Thanks. | |
| Dec 16, 2017 at 23:00 | comment | added | Robbie Goodwin | Really? If this is wordchoice then it has no place in English Language Users… read the forum Tour and Help at the bottom of your page. That said, when you can make your own argument for doing so it might be appropriate to use synched/synced. Until then, why not stick with the formal standard? | |
| Dec 16, 2017 at 22:45 | comment | added | gracacs | This is wordchoice @RobbieGoodwin, I want to know which word is preferable if it feels natural to use one over the other. The replies I got so far lead us to think it is a tad irrelative, which is what I asked. Maybe I did digress a bit on the previous comment and that's what you're referring to? | |
| Dec 15, 2017 at 22:02 | comment | added | Robbie Goodwin | Sorry and I don't understand why anyone graced that with an Answer here. If you're making a difference between English and some 'computing context' it's entirely up to you whether this or that is too formal and whether it's preferred to use synched/synced instead… | |
| Dec 13, 2017 at 16:36 | comment | added | gracacs | That's a tough one @Rob_Ster but I don't think that usually you would refer to something as formally as to say "that needs to be synchronized" or "the server is synchronized", probably more so following the path of what @ Chris H was saying to a writing versus speaking? I know that the in sync of @ Mick could spare us some trouble but what about a "Proceed synchronization" button? That on which you click before you see the "we are now working on your request" sort. Should it become something like "Sync!" and the reply? "You are now in sync"/Synced/Synchronized? Is it ok to use either form? | |
| Dec 13, 2017 at 15:53 | comment | added | Rob_Ster | To what extend do you consider English in a computing context to be different from standard English? Isn't this just a matter of personal opinion? Or are there special rules that apply to the dialect of technical writers? I think the question is either more or less answerable depending on one's assumptions. | |
| Dec 13, 2017 at 13:13 | comment | added | Mick | I normally avoid the issue by using in sync. | |
| Dec 13, 2017 at 13:10 | answer | added | Tamara Natividad | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 13, 2017 at 12:58 | comment | added | Chris H | Personally I like sunc but I can't get it to catch on (apparently neither can Peter Shor, going by the linked question) . Synched looks old-fashioned, but computing is a huge field and a user manual is very different to an academic paper in terms of formality. This isn't quite the same question, though the answers may overlap. | |
| Dec 13, 2017 at 12:45 | history | asked | gracacs | CC BY-SA 3.0 |