Re: [FWP] another word for object?

["B. K. Oxley (binkley) at Home" <binkley@bigfoot.com>]

Uri Guttman wrote:
> 
> your mission is to come up with a nice short term to use instead of
> object. i am sick of the word and i need to name these things and have
> %name_to_object maps and such. i can't just call it 'name' either.

Ding is always nice.  (German for 'thing'.)  It also has nice
connotations from the phrase "das Ding-am-ding" ('thing in itself') from
philosophy[*].  Plus you can always make nice puns in English with it
(e.g., "ding-a-ling", "ding/dong" v. "this/that").


--binkley


* == I'm recalling this phrase from my undergraduate days, and it's
recollection is subject to all the usual penalties.  In fact, this isn't
the translation I'd think of at all if encountering the phrase for the
first time.  Hmmm...

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