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From: mdg@smegma.UUCP (Marc de Groot)
Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng
Subject: Re: spatial reference in natural language
Message-ID: <147@smegma.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jan 88 05:26:46 GMT
References: <6818@sunybcs.UUCP> <1557@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk> <4874@spool.cs.wisc.edu> <1987Dec17.211611.2262@sq.uucp> <2922@super.upenn.edu>
Reply-To: mdg@smegma.UUCP (Marc de Groot)
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In article <2922@super.upenn.edu> george@apollo.lap.upenn.edu (George Zipperlen) writes:
>In article <1987Dec17.211611.2262@sq.uucp> msb@sq.UUCP (Mark Brader) writes:
>In a similar vein:  "uploading" and "downloading". I've never been able to 
>get these straight.  My intuition is to make an analogy with upriver and
>downriver - the larger machine being closer to the sea (-:)
I have an acquaintance who had problems with this class of terms; he dealt
with it by finding a single word for both activities: uploading and downloading
were collectivley referred to as offloading; plugs and sockets were collective-
ly referred to as connectors. :-)

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