John Gilmore writes: >"Get Actionable Insight with Security Intelligence for Mainframe >Environments" >is a good deal more offensive than a porous statistic. >It sounds significant, bit it is pretentious nonsense. Properly, >'actionable' is a lawyer's term that means 'open to legal action, >characterizing something that one can take legal action/bring suit >against'.
According to Merriam-Webster: Definition of ACTIONABLE 1 : subject to or affording ground for an action or suit at law 2 : capable of being acted on <actionable information> Examples of ACTIONABLE ... We've received actionable information that the men are hiding in these mountains. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/actionable Merriam-Webster does not presently consider definition #2 to be slang, colloquial, or in any other way nonstandard English. IBM is grammatically correct here. Moreover, couldn't IBM (also) mean definition #1? :-) True, definition #2 is not as old as definition #1. The English language evolves. Sorry about that. Thank goodness IBM evolves too. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Sipples GMU VCT Architect Executive (Based in Singapore) E-Mail: sipp...@sg.ibm.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
