XPost: alt.usage.english   
   From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk   
      
   In article <10f1i18$1am4s$1@dont-email.me>,   
   Lawrence D'Oliveiro   wrote:   
      
   >    The word performant has found a niche in the 21st century through   
   >    adoption in computing contexts, but remains otherwise practically   
   >    unknown in day-to-day communication, where more common   
   >    alternatives (such as high-performance, efficient or effective)   
   >    are typically adopted.   
   >   
   >Would you agree that it is very much a niche usage?   
      
   I spend all my life in computing contexts, and have never heard anyone   
   say the word.  But then I had never heard anyone say "informatics"   
   until our department was renamed to that.  Both sound like the sort of   
   made-up English found in EU technical documents.   
      
   -- Richard   
      
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