<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:tahoma,new york,times,serif;font-size:14pt"><br><div> Hi John,<br><br>From my experience with Ampex, where we served the Worldwide marketplace, I would use the two words or<br>two words with a separator version, since it allows the readers who understand Television, but where English may be their second or third Language, and probably their weakest, to better understand the concept you are presenting.<br><br>I gave papers all over the World, and good, understandable, translation of technical subjects is very difficult, most of the time.<br><br>Bill Carpenter<br></div><div><br></div><div style="font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> John Buck
卜克強 <velocite@me.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Quad List <quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thu, November 18, 2010 5:58:32 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [QuadList] Oh Learned Folk<br></font><br> As many of you know by now I have been writing a book called "Timeline" since 2006<br><br>It is a comprehensive look at electronic editing's history from 1956-2010<br>gleaned from interviews with many of the main players<br><br>I am in the text edit phase of the project which runs to 600 pages. <br>Apart from the obvious differences between the U.S and Europe in spelling terms <br>like color and colour, or edit suite versus edit bay<br><br>I was wondering what we as a group thought about:<br><br>Off-line versus Offline, Post-production vs. Postproduction?<br><br>It may seem obvious but the various reference points like
company product literature, <br>newspaper and magazine reports from the era and general interviews are all at odds<br>with each other. <br><br>Thanks<br>John<br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.velocite.net/">www.velocite.net</a><br><br></div></div> </div><br>
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