On Oct 31, 2011, at 5:45 AM, Axel Rauschmayer wrote:

>> "beget" sounds very much like what we want, but I just wanted to raise a
>> point about understanding and adoption, especially for the language of
>> the web.
> 
> I wouldn’t worry, all of a programming language is new vocabulary, anyway. 
> You always have to learn semantics, so learning a new word (especially one 
> that increases your English vocabulary) shouldn’t be a problem.

If this logic is correct then we shouldn't be worrying about the word choice at 
all.  We can just make up a word.  I propose "wrfs" as a suitably short  and 
meaningless word that isn't biased in favor of English speakers. 


Allenb

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