The thing is associated type means nothing to me, it's too technical. 
Placeholder type I think would be better even if it's only what we called it in 
the documentation 

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> On 23 Dec 2015, at 20:35, Chris Lattner via swift-evolution 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On Dec 23, 2015, at 9:59 AM, Erica Sadun <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> And what are your feelings about: typestandin, typeplaceholder, or 
>> adoptedtype? How would you describe the functionality of these members if 
>> you weren't looking for a keyword?
> 
> These don’t really speak to me, just because they aren’t the terminology that 
> people use to refer to these.  “standin” and “placeholder” are also pretty 
> vacuous.
> 
> -Chris
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