Same root as "manual", no? i.e. a hand- book
>>>just to let u know the exact dutch terminology i have been asked to do
>>>
>>>handleiding
>>>functioneel ontwerp
>>>technisch ontwerp
>>>
>>>i am assuming these translate to user manual, functional analysis and techincal analysis.
>>
>>Um... wouldn't leiding be akin to "leading"? IOW, handleiding sounds to me more like "handleading", i.e. "user's guide".
>
>Very good! leiden = to lead, een leiding = a lead, een leider = a leader
>But now I'm suddenly wondering what 'hand' is doing here.
>
>
>>Not that there's much difference between user's manual and guide; the purpose of the first is to be at hand, for reference, while the other is a textbook from which to learn how to use. In practice, it's most often the same book(let), with long descriptions of what you can already see onscreen, and very little of "how-to" ;).
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
