On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 01:29:45PM +0200, Rolf Lampa wrote:
This is also the actual reason for why I'm a bit hesitant about the term "Alias" (since that abstract word doesn't mean much to most people, it doesn't give them a "guide line" so to speak). We can mean the same thing with a word, but now I'm talking about the pedagogical aspect, motivating and explaining the (untended) concept to editors. In that context Synonyms means something, it means more, it kind of intuitively gives most people at least some ideas about what kind of /relevant/ keywords to add to a Synonym list.
Though I don't think the word synonym accurate reflects what's going on here: synonyms are words which mean much the same as other words.
We really are talking about aliases: also known as -- different spellings (usually) for the same words. At least, in the pattern-driven examples I've seen mentioned upthread.
Cheers, -- jra