Re: Simplify! A modest proposal to shorten this name....

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sat Sep 02 2000 - 09:45:55 MDT


Monads.

Spikesters.

It's probably a silly, self-damaging idea to use such a word anyway. It
smacks of cultism. It's peculiar. Do we have claques of mathematicians
wandering about declaring themselves `logarithmarians'? Do geologists name
each other `granitists' (admittedly, some of them are schists)? Is Stephen
Jay Gould a `punctuated equilibrian'?

Call yourselves Elians, and win a fine Cuban cigar!

Damien Broderick



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