Re: [oasis-charter-discuss] Re: Proposed Charter for OASISBusiness Document Exchange (BusDox) TC

[Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net>]

+1 - The proposed name is a project killer. 

Patrick

On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 11:18 -0400, Dave Ings wrote:
> +1
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> Inactive hide details for Jon Bosak ---2010/10/27 11:14:21 AM---If the
> intent of the name BusDox is to quickly convey the ideJon Bosak
> ---2010/10/27 11:14:21 AM---If the intent of the name "BusDox" is to
> quickly convey the idea that the TC has something to do wit
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> From: Jon Bosak <bosak@pinax.com>
> To: oasis-charter-discuss@lists.oasis-open.org
> Date: 2010/10/27 11:14 AM
> Subject: [oasis-charter-discuss] Re: Proposed Charter for OASIS
> Business Document Exchange (BusDox) TC
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> If the intent of the name "BusDox" is to quickly convey the idea
> that the TC has something to do with business documents, then I'm
> sorry to inform the convenors that it fails miserably.
> 
> Very few (if any) native speakers of English will interpret
> "BusDox" as having anything to do with business or documents
> unless you have already told them that (which presumably is not
> the intent of a short name).  Until informed otherwise, they will
> assume that the work of the group has something to do with buses
> and then puzzle unfruitfully over what "dox" could refer to.
> 
> There is no connection in general consciousness between "bus" and
> "business."  There is no connection in general consciousness
> between "dox" and "documents."  Neither term is ever used as
> a short form of the longer word.
> 
> If you don't believe me, try the name out on some random group of
> nontechnical people drawn from the general (English-speaking)
> population.  Show them the term "BusDox" without further prompting
> and ask them what they think it might mean.
> 
> The name you're looking for is "BizDocs."
> 
> Jon
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