Re: RDFa Last Call Comment: Better name than 'instanceof' is needed from Martin McEvoy on 2008-03-21 (public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org from March 2008)

From: Martin McEvoy <info@weborganics.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:32:52 +0000
To: Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com>
Cc: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>, Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>, W3C RDFa task force <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>
Message-Id: <1206106372.27009.12.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 08:04 -0500, Shane McCarron wrote:
> I personally like @kindof - however note that in American English,
> "kind 
> of" is slang for "maybe that is true" - as in "Did you like the dinner
> I 
> made?"  "Kind of."  I know, horrifying.  People also say "sort of".
> I 
> don't mind - just a data point.

Ha yes you are right I didn't think of that, I was thinking "kind" in a
biblical "man kind" or creative sense "instances sharing common traits"

the latter suits the RDFa definition better though.

Good point.

Thanks

Martin McEvoy

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