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About gmcdavid

Retired IT professional with a wide range of interests. Married. Three sons, two with autistic-spectrum disorders and the third being transgender with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. From Chicago but now living in the Twin Cities metro, Minnesota. Episcopalian. Carleton College (BA 1972, physics) and Stanford University (MS 1974, Applied Physics; MS 1976 Statistics).

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.