Re: what's a nice collective noun for 'organization" that isn't "organization"?

Subject: Re: what's a nice collective noun for 'organization" that isn't "organization"?
From: "Peter Neilson" <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 10:57:17 -0400

I would entify verbs such as those in section 76.3 of Roget, boldly creating neologisms ad lib., e.g. Encompassment, Includiality. I would investigate synecdoche or metaphor, as ship, army, orbit, planet, universe, galaxy, or team. I would use words so far out of context their original meaning would be overlooked: rutabaga, wheel, tar pit, grapefruit. I would borrow words heretofore unused from Latin or Greek. My translators would weep, or perhaps fail outright.

Don't you think the area of poetry is overlooked in the pursuit of technical writing?

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