Performant: real word or not?
I got some feedback from my PhD supervisor recently and one of the comments was as follows:
I had been using “performant” to mean something along the lines of “fast enough”. But is it really a word? I wasn’t actually sure. Turns out a few others have had the same problem. Looks like Jeff Boulter bet me to this by about 4 years. The comments on the blog entry there provide a bit more background to this issue.
I just changed the way I wrote my sentence in the end.
Maybe a proliferation of blog entries on this word will aid its journey to the dictionary!
It’s fine Sam, it’s a perfectly cromulent word.
Comment by Greig — 12 Mar 2008 @ 7:09 pm