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"not fully implementable" #1 (permalink) Mon Sep 18, 2006 19:13 pm   "not fully implementable"
 

Hi

This is not fully implementable.

1. How does the (technical) word implementable sounds for you? (If not too good, can you give a better synonym?)

2. The sentence means:
- ... not implementable at all or
- ... not implementable in full
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"not fully implementable" #2 (permalink) Mon Sep 18, 2006 19:57 pm   "not fully implementable"
 

Hi Tamara

The word implementable is fine and sounds to me like something that would be a techie favorite. Wink

I'd understand your sentence to mean "Parts of this cannot be implemented"

Theoretically speaking, however, a whole project might not be implemented at all if the non-implementable "issues" are critical and can't be resolved. So, in that sense, your sentence could mean "not implementable at all."

But I've heard of plenty of projects being launched before they were fully implementable. Laughing

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Implementable #3 (permalink) Mon Sep 18, 2006 19:57 pm   Implementable
 

Hi Tamara,

I don't like implementable one little bit- it's too much of a mouthful. I'd go for cannot be fully implemented.

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"not fully implementable" #4 (permalink) Mon Sep 18, 2006 21:51 pm   "not fully implementable"
 

Hi Amy,

Yankee wrote:
...like something that would be a techie favorite.
Yes...

Quote:
I'd understand your sentence to mean "Parts of this cannot be implemented"
Thank you for the validation.

Quote:
But I've heard of plenty of projects being launched before they were fully implementable.
I've not only heard of that...
But here (in the above case) (not) implementable is a predictiion. Estimate for the future.

By the way, Amy, what "negative" prefix would you use with the word? Instead of using not.
un? in-?

Alan wrote:
I don't like implementable one little bit- it's too much of a mouthful. I'd go for cannot be fully implemented.
Hi Alan,

OK, I've got it.
And what about is unfeasible?

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"not fully implementable" #5 (permalink) Mon Sep 18, 2006 22:23 pm   "not fully implementable"
 

Tamara wrote:
By the way, Amy, what "negative" prefix would you use with the word? Instead of using not.
un? in-?

Hi Tamara

I used "non" for explanation reasons, but I guess the prefix un- "should" be added. Rolling Eyes To be honest, though, "unimplementable" is a word that sends me over to Alan's camp: That seems to be taking things too far (too much of a mouthful). Still, if you're dealing with techies, it just might be quite a normal term. Laughing Wink

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Unresolvably awkward :) #6 (permalink) Tue Sep 19, 2006 7:39 am   Unresolvably awkward :)
 

Good morning, Amy Smile

Thanks a lot.

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(too much of a mouthful). Still, if you're dealing with techies, it just might be quite a normal term. Laughing Wink

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