Re: What do you call something?

[Odile Sullivan-Tarazi <odile -at- mindspring -dot- com>]

"Speech bubble" or "speech balloon," I do believe.  It's a "thought 
bubble" (or balloon) when rather than a pointed end directed to the 
mouth, there are small, increasingly larger, independent circles 
rising from the head to the balloon.


Odile



At 2:14 PM -0600 3/18/10, Spectrum Writing wrote:
>Okay, you know how, for example, like in cartoons, when a character talks,
>the words are contained in some kind of like balloon type object   - anyway,
>they are surrounded with a semi-oval shape border with a pointed end that
>points to the character's mouth -
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>what on earth would you call that in documentation? Please no joke - I have
>several of these to describe - different colored ones mean different things
>and rather than writing the red
>"thing-a-ma-jig/doodad/whatchyamacallit/doohickey" means this, I would like
>to say the red <insert object name here> indicates that this is a warning,
>the green < > means this has been processed, etc.
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>Thanks!
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