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Subject:Re: What do you call something? From:Ken Poshedly <poshedly -at- bellsouth -dot- net> To:info -at- spectrumwritingllc -dot- com, TechWhirl List <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:24:36 -0700 (PDT)
I believe I've seen them referred to as "thought clouds".
If the character is speaking, the "cloud" border is more defined and not "bubbly".
What YOU should call it, I don't know.
-- Kenpo
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Subject: What do you call something?
Okay, you know how, for example, like in cartoons, when a character talks,
the words are contained in some kind of like balloon type object - anyway,
they are surrounded with a semi-oval shape border with a pointed end that
points to the character's mouth -
what on earth would you call that in documentation? Please no joke - I have
several of these to describe - different colored ones mean different things
and rather than writing the red
"thing-a-ma-jig/doodad/whatchyamacallit/doohickey" means this, I would like
to say the red <insert object name here> indicates that this is a warning,
the green < > means this has been processed, etc.
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