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RE: It did happen on a Friday...

Subject: RE: It did happen on a Friday...
From: Zola <zola -at- zolaweb -dot- com>
To: eric -dot- dunn -at- ca -dot- transport -dot- bombardier -dot- com
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 14:47:56 -0500

At 01:05 PM 2/24/2004, eric -dot- dunn -at- ca -dot- transport -dot- bombardier -dot- com babbled happily:

Zola <zola -at- zolaweb -dot- com> wrote on 02/24/2004 12:51:44 PM:
> Hmmm.... what about master/servant? That conveys the idea
> that the second
> "follows the orders" of the first but isn't quite so loaded.

Perhaps. It's certainly the best alternative IMO put forward so far. But,
it'll be a while until the dictionary changes. And Mirriam-Webster's
on-line offers no synonyms for Slave when referring to "directly
responsive" devices.

Well, one advantage of using master/servant is that one could begin to do it immediately and it is unlikely to confuse anyone.

Z



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