Re: Replacement for "mix-and-match"

Subject: Re: Replacement for "mix-and-match"
From: Shawn <shawn -at- cohodata -dot- com>
To: Tony Chung <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca>
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 15:10:00 -0800

Thanks Tony.

>On another scale, who is your audience and why would an idiom not
be suitable?

My audience is very technical. Why? I was affected by my personal bias.

After some thought, reviewing techwr responses, and asking colleagues, I
decided to stick with mix/match.

Thanks to all for your invaluable feedback.


On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 2:33 PM, Tony Chung <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca> wrote:

> I haven't read every message. Has anyone suggested "interchangeable" or
> "interconnected"?
>
> On another scale, who is your audience and why would an idiom not
> be suitable?
>
> This page might have some ideas you could steal -- er, trigger some
> ideas...
> http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego
>
> I kind of like "interlocking".
>
> -Tony
>
> On Friday, March 6, 2015, Shawn <shawn -at- cohodata -dot- com> wrote:
>
>>
>> I am writing a technical paper and one of the stakeholders suggested using
>> the idiom, "mix-and-match". I am loath to use an idiom.
>>
>>

Shawn
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References:
Replacement for "mix-and-match": From: Shawn
Re: Replacement for "mix-and-match": From: Tony Chung

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