[Wikidata-l] SNAK -> assertion?

[JFC Morfin]

Binàris,
then you should coin a crystal clear definition of snak (could it be 
made an acronym?) everyone can memorize and understand. Sounds also 
as snap and snag. If you find a pun it would help it get accepted.
jfc

At 10:39 06/04/2012, Bináris wrote:
>2012/4/5 Gregor Hagedorn 
><<mailto:g.m.hagedorn at gmail.com>g.m.hagedorn at gmail.com>
>
>I still feel uneasy about the hard-to-remember-neonym.
>
>It was strange to me and had to read after it. You may remember as 
>bit-->byte-->snack, growing pieces of food.
>
>
>I cannot prove
>it, but believe the term snak will have to be learned by anyone who
>interacts with the system through the API, any form of import
>mechanism, etc.
>
>Well, and what's then? They will learn. Once I thought namespaces to 
>be a rather programming word and concept, but then I became a 
>Wikipedian and understood they were a basic concept of editing. 
>Every Wikipedian must know the difference between article and user 
>and project namespace and they are not afraid of the word even if 
>they have no real knowledge about namespaces in programming. People 
>must understand concepts and ideas, and for the majority of 
>non-English, non-programmer people it will be quite the same 
>whatever name the new concept has. More, a sna(c)k fits better to 
>every day concepts of an avarage person than an assertion, doesn't it?
>
>
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>Bináris
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