Re: Politically correct term for four-eyes authorization?

[Lin Sims <ljsims -dot- ml -at- gmail -dot- com>]

In the nuclear missile corp, they have something they call the "two-man
rule", meaning it takes two separate people to authorize a launch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-man_rule

Is that something like what you're talking about?

On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 10:00 AM, Peter Neilson <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net>
wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 09:30:46 -0400, Robert Fekete <
> fekete77 -dot- robert -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
>
>  Thanks a lot for your help and ideas. Unfortunately, we really need a way
>> to name the type of the authorization, because this is a prominent
>> feature of the product, and heavily used in marketing communication as well.
>>
>
> Oh, then this is a /marketing/ issue, not a tech-writing issue, just as
> long as marketing does not choose something that is completely misleading
> or is offensive to most of the customers.
>
> Let the imagination fly, neologolizing at full speed. They could call it
> disredundant, or multipastural, or diphrasic, or rhetoluctural. I don't
> think anybody's used any of those terms before. And I'm not going to check,
> either. Some years ago I looked up my wholly mythical diphenhydrazine (NOT
> diphenhydramine, which is Benadryl and Sominex) I was amazed at what I
> found. (If it existed diphenhydrazine would be a rocket fuel.)
>
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