Baldacci: credentialing letter

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Marius Hancu - 28 Sep 2010 12:04 GMT

Hello:

It seems that "credentialing letter" is out there. Anything better?

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Other officers poured out of the back room and advanced on Finn, guns
drawn. Yet Finn had pulled out his credentialing letter before the
pistols had even appeared.

David Baldacci, Stone Cold
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Thanks.
Marius Hancu

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Horace LaBadie - 28 Sep 2010 13:09 GMT

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> Hello:
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> Thanks.
> Marius Hancu

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Don Phillipson - 28 Sep 2010 13:18 GMT

> Other officers poured out of the back room and advanced on Finn, guns
> drawn. Yet Finn had pulled out his credentialing letter before the
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> It seems that "credentialing letter" is out there. Anything better?

Plenty, e.g. letters of credit, credentials, identifying document (ID)
and so on. "Credentialing letter" is simply sloppy writing.

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Mark Brader - 28 Sep 2010 19:16 GMT

Marius Hancu:

> > Other officers poured out of the back room and advanced on Finn, guns
> > drawn. Yet Finn had pulled out his credentialing letter before the
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> >
> > It seems that "credentialing letter" is out there. Anything better?

Don Phillipson:

> Plenty, e.g. letters of credit, credentials, identifying document (ID)
> and so on. "Credentialing letter" is simply sloppy writing.

No, confusing a letter of credit (which is about money) with credentials
(which are about status) is sloppy. "Credentialing letter" clearly
means a letter which serves as credentials. It's more specific and,
even though I don't think I've ever seen it before, I see nothing
wrong with it.

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Lewis - 28 Sep 2010 15:59 GMT

> Hello:

> It seems that "credentialing letter" is out there. Anything better?

Credentials is the word I would have used.

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> Other officers poured out of the back room and advanced on Finn, guns
> drawn. Yet Finn had pulled out his credentialing letter before the
> pistols had even appeared.

that seems very awkward to me unless a point has been made previously
about a specific document consistently referred to by that name, in
which case I'd probably capitalize it.

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Discussion Groups / English Usage / September 2010

Baldacci: credentialing letter