Hi, On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 06:36:54AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > but some kind of strange feeling continues if I hear this name (and > > the translation of it). It's just misleading. > > Er, just because you have a "strange feeling" doesn't mean the name is > misleading. > > "Med" is pretty ambiguous. _I_ certainly don't have any immediate > reaction that it contains "medical software," and I don't think it's a > generally used abbreviation for medical in the wider population --
Not that I live in USA... In USA, when an university student says "pre-med" , that kids is trying to go to medical school. It is certainly recognised as one short form for medical. But quick look up in google gives you "med" will lead you to things not only for www.med.stanford.edu but club med (resort club name: "med" implicitly means Mediterranean) . So it can be many other thigss too. (But you find mostly medical related words there) 3 letter acronyms tend to crash each other so much. Considering this being somewhat specialised purpose, I should say avoiding name crash was prudent thing to do. Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
