Section 3 of 5
Who decides the name
Terminology as a discipline. Terminology work is deciding that within this document set a thing has exactly one designation, and enforcing it.
Terminology work is deciding that within this document set a thing has exactly one designation, and enforcing it. One object, one name
- One object, one name
Terminology work is deciding that within this document set a thing has exactly one designation, and enforcing it.
- Wüster in Vienna
The discipline has a founding figure and a doctoral thesis behind it, and the fact that it began with electrical engineering is not an accident.
- When two departments disagree
Most terminology disputes are not linguistic; they are two parts of an organisation having meant different things for years.
- The database nobody reads
A term base only works if it is in the translator's tool at the moment of writing, not in a document somebody must remember to open.