# Comm Tech Part 2, with a Poll

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comm-tech-part-2-with-a-poll/601587>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 2, 2011, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comm-tech-part-2-with-a-poll/601587 "2011-11-02T04:03:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2011, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comm-tech-part-2-with-a-poll/601587/1 "2011-11-02T04:03:18Z")

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This is my first atttempt at a poll, so I hope this works. I thought maybe I’d get a better response this way.

I say “communications technology” with an S, but I keep encountering “communication technology.”

I am, of course, referring only to the modern technology dealing with the Internet and satellite phone calls and the like, not something like ways of getting your meaning across to that newly discovered tribe in the Amazon.

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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2011, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comm-tech-part-2-with-a-poll/601587/2 "2011-11-03T02:37:35Z")

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It’s neck and neck! This is nail-biting action.

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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2011, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comm-tech-part-2-with-a-poll/601587/3 "2011-11-03T14:26:26Z")

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Okay, it’s my poll, so I’m declaring S the winner, the loser who opted for without S should hang his head in eternal shame, and the other three guys should meet me outside of Susie Wong Bar in Soi Cowboy at 10pm tomorrow night.

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**Author:** ![janeslogin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@janeslogin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janeslogin)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2011, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comm-tech-part-2-with-a-poll/601587/4 "2011-11-03T15:51:25Z")

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There is a decade old estimation practice of using [ghits](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ghit). Google reports above 74 million for communications technology and about 17 million for communication technology. [I really don’t have much confidence in ghits but for this case they seem to give a satisfactory result.] I’m guessing that the proprer use on n-grams would produce a more reliable result.

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**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2011, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comm-tech-part-2-with-a-poll/601587/5 "2011-11-03T15:59:36Z")

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_[Double]_

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**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2011, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comm-tech-part-2-with-a-poll/601587/6 "2011-11-03T16:01:40Z")

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I’m a translator, and it’s a conundrum I’ve encountered on several occasions. I use an S - it just feels better. Do I have a degree in Communication, or a degree in Communications? Both are equally worthless, but the latter is what’s on my diploma.