On Jul 23, 2008, at 3:27 PM, Christian Crumlish wrote:
> I also accept that language drifts and even terms of art can change
> and the
> "success" of the pattern meme is going to tend to lead to watering
> it down,
> but I'm nonetheless going to try to hold the line on this
> distinction for
> now, as I think it's useful.
I completely agree with this line of thinking. I think, as a
community, it serves us well to be careful of our language.
I've been fighting a similar battle with personas versus descriptions-
of-people-real-or-otherwise because watering the term down doesn't
help its usefulness.
I'd like to see more efforts in the community to establish and protect
a language we can all use to mean the same things.
Jared
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