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Subject:What do you call something? From:Chris Morton <salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:07:39 -0700
In drafting class, they were most definitely callouts. Hence if it's an
engineering piece, I'd use that term as the prospective audience will be
able to relate.
And I don't ever recall my AA, 100% left-brained geekoid brother—he who
designed the *interferon gifrabulator*—reading a comic, ever, so I'd refrain
from referring to them as cartoon bubbles.
> Chris
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