Monthly Archives: July 2006

Terminology

In my database work here I deal with a lot of documentation. As reading matter, most of it makes a reasonable cure for insomnia. However, today something caught my eye: I was going to deal with “names that are entities or non-humans”.

Of course, this is really about corporations and similar bodies. But I am still pleased to that see “non-humans” is part of government bureaucrateese.