person - definition

[Patrick Durusau <pdurusau@emory.edu>]

Greetings!

The word for today is: person!

For your amusement, FOLDOC reports:

person of no account

(University of California at Santa Cruz) Used when referring to a person 
with no network address, frequently to forestall confusion. Most often 
as part of an introduction: "This is Bill, a person of no account, but 
he used to be bill@random.com".

Wilde's: None

Techencyclopedia: None

Merriam-Webster:

1. HUMAN, INDIVIDUAL -- sometimes used in combination especially by 
those who prefer to avoid man in compounds applicable to both sexes 
<chairperson> <spokesperson>

Note that #6 raises the problem of who is a person I mentioned at our 
last meeting:

6. one (as a human being, a partnership, or a corporation) that is 
recognized by law as the subject of rights and duties

I have changed my mind about this entry and think we should use a fairly 
standard definition and not concern ourselves with the legal niceties. 
Afterall the PSI's are supposed to be used in the scope of XML resourcs 
and if someone want to use them outside that area, they do so at their 
own risk.

Suggestion: Person: A human being.

Hope everyone is having a great day!

Patrick


-- 
Patrick Durusau
Director of Research and Development
Society of Biblical Literature
Patrick.Durusau@sbl-site.org
Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface
Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model

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