- From: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 01:29:29 +0200
- To: "=JeffH" <Jeff.Hodges@kingsmountain.com>
- Cc: uri@w3.org
On 19 April 2010 23:36, =JeffH <Jeff.Hodges@kingsmountain.com> wrote: >> I like 'Web address', I think it'll take a bit of concerted effort to >> persuade everyone that physical things, people etc can also have them, >> but if that's the chosen terminology I'll have a go :) > > offhand, "web address" or whatever seems nominally fine amongst "civilians", > while I'd want to use the more precise and carefully thought out technical > terms in specs. there are a lot more civilians than spec folks > > this discussion illustrates the difficulties we get ourselves into when we > try to have technical terms also serve double duty as colloquial everyday > terms, for use amongst "civilians", and/or when technical folk are not > precise in their terminology. > > IMV, anyway, FWIW. I agree. I'm slightly bothered how strongly Roy reacted to what seems a very rational suggestion. Surely we can have colloquialisms alongside the specs? Cheers, Danny. -- http://danny.ayers.name
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