{"id":8363,"date":"2012-02-07T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2012\/02\/07\/microspeak-fit\/"},"modified":"2012-02-07T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T07:00:00","slug":"microspeak-fit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20120207-00\/?p=8363","title":{"rendered":"Microspeak: fit"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Microspeak, fit<\/i> is a predicate noun which is never used on its own but always comes with a modifying adjective. For something to be a good fit<\/i> is for something to be appropriate or suitable for a particular situation. The opposite of a good fit<\/i> is not a bad fit<\/i>, because that’s pejorative. Rather, something that is not a good fit<\/i> is referred to as a poor fit<\/i>. <\/p>\n

The purpose of a previewer plug-in is to allow users to view the media without opening it. An image editing tool would not be a good fit for the previewing feature. (Alternatively, “would be a poor fit for the previewing feature.”) <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To be a good fit<\/i> with a particular group is to mesh well with that group’s existing practices and conventions. <\/p>\n

The Datacenter Edition of the product is a poor fit for most small businesses. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The group in question need not consist of people. <\/p>\n

The results are obtained incrementally, which makes it a good fit for IQueryable<T><\/code> and LINQ. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Microsoft Human Resources loves to apply the concept of “fit” to people fitting into a job position<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Microspeak, fit is a predicate noun which is never used on its own but always comes with a modifying adjective. For something to be a good fit is for something to be appropriate or suitable for a particular situation. The opposite of a good fit is not a bad fit, because that’s pejorative. Rather, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[105,26],"class_list":["post-8363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-microspeak","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

In Microspeak, fit is a predicate noun which is never used on its own but always comes with a modifying adjective. For something to be a good fit is for something to be appropriate or suitable for a particular situation. The opposite of a good fit is not a bad fit, because that’s pejorative. Rather, […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}