19 September 2013

Deliverables

The term "deliverable" is frequently encountered in documents on localisation and globalisation, and somewhat less frequently in texts dealing solely with translation.

On 18 September 2013, in a post subtitled Deliverables are the product of certain kinds of work, Paul Ford commented:
'Deliverable' is a hilarious word, because it implies that the only quality of work that truly matters is that it is delivered — like bad take-out food or weed. A deliverable is anything as long as it’s there.
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