Let's play a game.
Don't say PowerPoint presentation, say slidedeck
Don't say Word, say text document
Don't say Photoshop, say image editing
Don't say Excel, say spreadsheet
Don't say...
Language is important. When corporate companies own the names of the tasks or the digital items you create, you have become a cog in their branding machine.
Great advice!
But are there no better word than "text document"? That is sort of already taken by plain text. A name for documents between text and DTP. Nothing else comes to my mind, though...
I agree with this.
I only want add that we got here because of the time when only a proprietary program could open certain file extensions. At least this is my reasoning. Adobe had pdf locked down and M$ Word had word file extensions locked in, etc.
Breaking this habit will be hard.
Back in the day Word and its competitors were collectively known as word processors. In fact, before PCs were affordable to most and as a stop gap between typewriters and the PC there were computers in the 80s that were collectively known as word processors. Glorified typewriters with little memory and with spell checking capabilities they wrote many a term paper back when.
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