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Subject:Re: Help with a term From:Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> To:"Weissman, Jessica" <WeissmanJ -at- abacustech -dot- com> Date:Mon, 23 Apr 2012 10:05:06 -0700
If the edict is to come up with "something, anything else" rather than what
it really is, then you can pretty much call it whatever you want, since
you've crossed the line into nomenclature that nobody but you and the
users of this one product are likely to ever employ. There's no point in
asking us what name would make sense, because the one name that does make
sense has been arbitrarily disqualified.
My opening response is usually to suggest that we call the new thing
:"George" before presenting my actual choice, unless I know that the people
I'm dealing with have no sense of the absurd.
Gene Kim-Eng
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 7:46 AM, Weissman, Jessica <WeissmanJ -at- abacustech -dot- com
> wrote:
> I have been told to reserve the term "form" for the legacy paper forms.
> Otherwise I would turn to "form" as the obvious choice.
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