USERS: THREAT OR MENACE?

[ivorygates]

I'm looking for input on terminology here, because I'm running across more and more translation strings with the word "user" in them, and it's my understanding that Dreamwidth wants to avoid using that term. Now, frequently "user" can be replaced with "you", but just as frequently it can't, as in "Similar Users" or "No users are similar to [[user]]." (I could go on. And on.)

ETA: Judges' Ruling: "users" will be replaced with "accounts" throughout translation strings where "user" or "users" cannot reasonably and logically be replaced with "you".

What are we going to do in these situations? "Individual" is too cold-corporate; "People" is misleading (because sometimes the "USER" referenced in the translation string might also be a community or communities); "Persons" has the same problem as "People" (and is grammatically-hideous into the bargain).

I'm just about ready to replace "user" with "dude or dudes"....

Your thoughts?

Comments

Re: I'm always chasing rainbows

[norabombay]

Just saying I LOVE the icon. The more If You Seek Amy the better.

Re: I'm always chasing rainbows

[rainbow]

Thank you, I love my Morgan's Tarot - it was one of the first I got, back in the early 80s. But I don't remember an Amy card in it, and nothing is coming up on google?

Help me, nora-wan kenobi?

Re: I'm always chasing rainbows

[norabombay]

AH! I googled. And um, that is an awesome awesome tarot.

It is also the chorus of the new Britney Spears song.

"Ha ha hee hee ha ha ho" is the chorus of "If You Seek Amy", the new Britney Spears single- check it here on you tube: If you seek Amy - warning, suburban dance orgy ahead.

I may have a one track mind for references to one Ms. B. Spears. Like the force, in a way :)

Re: I'm always chasing rainbows

[rainbow]

I'll have to check that out the next time I'm up late (low bandwidth until the middle of the night).

I have this sudden mental image of BS in a costume of duct tape (it binds the galaxy together, donchano?)...

Re: I'm always chasing rainbows

[norabombay]

Sadly, I think duct tape may be the only thing I _haven't_ seen her in. But it would be much with the awesome.

Binding all the galaxy together for a pop music dance off!