"prior to"

[Alex LIVINGSTON]

Can the three-syllable, two-word, pretentious Bureauspeak "prior to" please be eliminated from all tz-file comments and documentation (unless it's a quote) and universally replaced by the two-syllable, one-word "before" of identical meaning?


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Alex LIVINGSTON
Macintosh Support
Information Technology (IT)
Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM)
The University of New South Wales (UNSW)
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