Rod Speed wrote in a message to John Logothetis:

RS> You jump into a thread to 'correct' something, have it
RS> pointed out that your wording means the same thing as mine,

No Rod. YOUR wording is incorrect.

An "Informal name" is a name not prescribing to any official or
customary forms.

A "Working name" is a developmental name (ie. a work-in-progress name).

Since the name "V.Fast" refers to an official recommended
standard in development, it thereby adopts a prescribed form - that being
an "unfinished" or "unratified" collection of
guidelines describing the technical functionality for electronic data
transmissions up to 28.8kbps.
 
In that sense, "V.Fast" can only be defined as a "Working
Name" and not
an "Informal name" since an "Informal name" adopts no
associated form.
 
RS> and thats me playing semantics. You sure you know what the
RS> word semantics actually means ? |-) 

You obviously don't  :-) .

Lets see now:

Semantics:   The science or study of meanings, especially applied to language.

Since you claimed that the phrase "Informal name" is the same as
"Working name", and having proven to you above that the two are
mutually exclusive with different meanings, my "correction" is in
effect a clarifaction of your misunderstanding of the true meaning of the
phrase "Informal Name".

Consequently, this line of study falls directly within the field of
"semantics". An area in which you are known to use "silly
debating techniques" when attempting to backpedal on an incorrect
statement or definition made by yourself. 


Go figure, Rod.


John.

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