Dilwyn said (15th October) :- "Could someone (or you, even, John) put together a list of words which cause difficulty and I could try to put something together as an article sometime?" -------------------------------------------------
I said:- I'm on to it! Will report back. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Reporting Back -------------------- I've waited to see if there are any further contributions to this (renamed) thread. Just Norman. Thanks Norman. To my mind, potential 'rej-oiners' to the QL World need a "catch-up-cache [cuc]".Lurkers and others would also benefit. I know, I'm one of them! What I have in mind are essentially the same ideas I wrote on the list/and or QUANTA many years ago. This, below, does not deserve the heading 'specification' - it's more a doodle. If writers/webmasters or whatever could have a reference list of **distinctly QL** terms and were able to run any new work through it. Hits - ignore. Misses - write, say, at least 5 (?) words of explanation - which is then added to the master list as the suggested 'Official Title of The Term Appended ' (and ready for insertion to a Universal Alphabetical Index [UAI]. A bit like Wikipedia - entries that may be freely amplified, explained further by those with the knowledge and time and inclination. Collection/ Assembly might begin at an agreed date, with any seeming new (or old) term. Better still, if this were supplemented by filtering QL historic written banter already in soft copy. Common occurrences in there which are without a (then) current definition could be added, as they are uncovered - if necessary simply as 'An Outstanding Term Needing to be Defined'. Re (Dilwyn's) : '...you, even, John...' Let's see how hot the pot is first. But it's well within possibilities. I shall write/do more on this if it boils! Could there be copywrite implications? (I think not.) What's the consensus on the idea, in principal? Do our authors out there like the idea? I'm full of ideas of how it might be brought about! They would begin with a 'specification'. Ramblings.... all ramblings........ . Greetings to all, John in Wales _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
