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From: shap@polya.Stanford.EDU (Jonathan S. Shapiro)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Frivolous standardization
Message-ID: <4673@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 26 Oct 88 05:35:01 GMT
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Reply-To: shap@polya.Stanford.EDU (Jonathan S. Shapiro)
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In article <41210@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> wald-david@CS.YALE.EDU (david wald) writes:
>    3) floptical drive,
>      which preserves the meter of the original terms.  The only problem
>      with this term is that the obvious shortening, "flopty," may be
>      a bit too close to the word "floppy" for easy use in conversation
>      (either in print or speech).
>

I can't resist.

I propose, on the logic of progressive technologies having logically
sequential names, that we should use:

	mopties

as in
	Flopties, Mopties, Peepers, and Floptentails.


It's been a long night.