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PSA: Stop using the term "use case" when you mean "use."
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by
lvs
on Dec 1, 2013
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Among many malapropisms metastasizing across this community, the terminology "use case" is a particularly annoying one. Stop using it. It is not a compound noun equivalent to "use" [1].
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_case
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