Surprisingly, "system and method for automatic partitioning applied to network protocols" isn't very catchy
June 24, 2009 2:42 PM Subscribe
Name-my-research-project-filter: Looking for a clever word or play on words that somehow evokes the idea of a friendly conversation between two people or a group. Sort of like "dialectic", but more cooperative and constructive. My brain is burnt out... vocabulary virtuosos, please hope me!
It's hard to think of word play without being familiar with the research, but fun words that come to mind are pow-wow, brainstorm, and chit chat.
posted by lunalaguna at 2:52 PM on June 24, 2009
posted by lunalaguna at 2:52 PM on June 24, 2009
More "cooperative and constructive": colloquy, causerie
More "friendly": badinage, palaver
posted by Iridic at 2:52 PM on June 24, 2009
More "friendly": badinage, palaver
posted by Iridic at 2:52 PM on June 24, 2009
Engaging exchanges...
posted by torquemaniac at 2:53 PM on June 24, 2009
posted by torquemaniac at 2:53 PM on June 24, 2009
Interlocution
posted by kestrel251 at 3:01 PM on June 24, 2009
posted by kestrel251 at 3:01 PM on June 24, 2009
Palaver
posted by i_am_a_Jedi at 3:01 PM on June 24, 2009
posted by i_am_a_Jedi at 3:01 PM on June 24, 2009
co-lloquy
posted by now i'm piste at 3:09 PM on June 24, 2009
posted by now i'm piste at 3:09 PM on June 24, 2009
Response by poster: Great suggestions so far! I should also have said that it should be a relatively uncommon word. (otherwise I would be all for naming it "Thing" and being finished)
So-chat-tic method made me try to think of some way to combine Socrates with stochastic. Hmm...
posted by qxntpqbbbqxl at 3:43 PM on June 24, 2009
So-chat-tic method made me try to think of some way to combine Socrates with stochastic. Hmm...
posted by qxntpqbbbqxl at 3:43 PM on June 24, 2009
Collocution
I looked it up and it exists, but I neglected to copy links
or maybe interlocution
posted by mareli at 3:48 PM on June 24, 2009
I looked it up and it exists, but I neglected to copy links
or maybe interlocution
posted by mareli at 3:48 PM on June 24, 2009
Mondo - from the question and answer techniques between a Zen master and disciple.
posted by Abiezer at 4:03 PM on June 24, 2009
posted by Abiezer at 4:03 PM on June 24, 2009
How about 'klatch?' it's a little (ok, a lot) more friendly than intellectual, but it is pretty uncommon. Really out there would be 'coadjute' which thesaurus.com says is a word, but it's partner says isn't. However a 'coadjutor' is someone who works with another.
Sodality and Moiety are both uncommon synonyms for 'cliques.'
If you want more plays on words more than a vocab, maybe...
A cahoot
A covalent bond
Coopartition (bad pun based off your title, sorry, my well is apparently dry today, I usually have much better punmanship)
A Bicker? (a more friendly version of a dialetic, maybe)
posted by Caravantea at 4:37 PM on June 24, 2009
Sodality and Moiety are both uncommon synonyms for 'cliques.'
If you want more plays on words more than a vocab, maybe...
A cahoot
A covalent bond
Coopartition (bad pun based off your title, sorry, my well is apparently dry today, I usually have much better punmanship)
A Bicker? (a more friendly version of a dialetic, maybe)
posted by Caravantea at 4:37 PM on June 24, 2009
"Rap session" or "rap". You can probably find lots of puns in there if you want to...
posted by aquafortis at 5:03 PM on June 24, 2009
posted by aquafortis at 5:03 PM on June 24, 2009
roundtable
posted by cosmicbandito at 7:14 PM on June 24, 2009
posted by cosmicbandito at 7:14 PM on June 24, 2009
Could you live with a coined word? dieclectic? infinilectic? Sochastic?
posted by ambient2 at 10:29 PM on June 24, 2009
posted by ambient2 at 10:29 PM on June 24, 2009
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posted by trox at 2:50 PM on June 24, 2009