On looking in the documentation I find that MakeMusic has invented a new word: AUTOMATIZE in the sentence "... an easy way to automatize repetetive tasks..."(page 9-38, first sentence under FinaleScript Plug-In / What It Does). What ever happened to AUTOMATE? Does nobody who knows the English language check these things?


David H. Bailey

MakeMusic hardly invented this word. A Google search (highly recommended before making any kind of announcement of a neologism) yields 8800 hits on the word, inlcuding entries in at least four online dictionaries. They define the word as "to make automatic"--which is *not* the same thing as "to automate."


"Automatize" is also in my ink-and-paper American Heritage College Dictionary, 3d edition, similarly defined.

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Andrew Stiller
Kallisti Music Press

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