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Re: "aka" - commonly understood ?

Subject: Re: "aka" - commonly understood ?
From: "MARK bAKER" <mbaker -at- analecta -dot- com>
To: "TechWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 19:45:56 -0400

Monique Semp said,

In a table of terms and definitions that I inherited, alternate terms are explained
as âaka <alternate-terms>â. Any thoughts on whether people will understand this?

Familiar or not, "aka" is not apt. What aka means is that a person (or object) is also known by another name. It does not mean that those names are synonyms. John Smith may be aka Fred Blogs, but that does not make the words "John Smith" and "Fred Blogs" synonyms. Words don't have names and so cannot be also known by other names. Synonym is not uncommonly represented as "syn".

Mark
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