Comments on: Surprisingly, "system and method for automatic partitioning applied to network protocols" isn't very catchy

Question: Surprisingly, "system and method for automatic partitioning applied to network protocols" isn't very catchy

qxntpqbbbqxl — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:42:47 -0800

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!

By: trox

trox — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:50:32 -0800

Discourse?

By: lunalaguna

lunalaguna — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:52:21 -0800

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.

By: Iridic

Iridic — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:52:22 -0800

More "cooperative and constructive": colloquy, causerie

More "friendly": badinage, palaver

By: torquemaniac

torquemaniac — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:53:45 -0800

Engaging exchanges...

By: The World Famous

The World Famous — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:57:09 -0800

Colloquy.

By: kestrel251

kestrel251 — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:01:08 -0800

Interlocution

By: i_am_a_Jedi

i_am_a_Jedi — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:01:42 -0800

Palaver

By: now i'm piste

now i'm piste — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:02:19 -0800

Not iChat, but weChat.

So-chat-tic method

By: now i'm piste

now i'm piste — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:09:39 -0800

co-lloquy

By: rhizome

rhizome — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:25:33 -0800

confab

By: padraigin

padraigin — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:39:55 -0800

Dialogue?

By: qxntpqbbbqxl

qxntpqbbbqxl — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:43:54 -0800

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...

By: mareli

mareli — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:48:51 -0800

Collocution
I looked it up and it exists, but I neglected to copy links

or maybe interlocution

By: mareli

mareli — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:50:39 -0800

interphrastiques

By: Abiezer

Abiezer — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:03:10 -0800

Mondo - from the question and answer techniques between a Zen master and disciple.

By: Cool Papa Bell

Cool Papa Bell — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:27:45 -0800

Huddle
Scrum
"calling an audible"

By: Caravantea

Caravantea — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:37:43 -0800

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)

By: 4ster

4ster — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:03:12 -0800

Banter.

By: aquafortis

aquafortis — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:03:37 -0800

"Rap session" or "rap". You can probably find lots of puns in there if you want to...

By: cosmicbandito

cosmicbandito — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:14:32 -0800

roundtable

By: flug

flug — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:10:29 -0800

Chautauqua

By: ZenMasterThis

ZenMasterThis — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:12:39 -0800

Salon.

Intercourse.

By: bkeene12

bkeene12 — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:34:58 -0800

slogging

By: ambient2

ambient2 — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:29:10 -0800

Could you live with a coined word? dieclectic? infinilectic? Sochastic?