New Terminology For This Blog

Just to be clear I'm going to put this out ahead of time. Some long time readers will know. The first of the two, I've already started to avoid "their" terminology. My terminology and the reasons for my use are here.


Ordinal.
Not really just the word ordinal, but their misuse of it when they talk about reverse ordinal. Technically, by definition of ordinal reverse ordinal is really just ordinal. Think of a set of encyclopedias. Every maker of encyclopedias uses the normal English alphabet ordering of the volumes. After volumes devoted to a single letter you end up getting to "j" and "k" which would be really thin just by themselves. So, put them together in one book. Q. Hardly worth an entire volume. Throw that in with P or R. X-Y-Z all together. So you end up with 23 volumes for the letters. Throw in a 24th with appendices and miscellaneous stuff and you have a 24 volume set, a nice multiple of six so you can justify having a volume of the month delivered to you once a month for two years, conveniently billed to your credit card. Order now and you get a tote bag. That's a perfectly good ordinal system based on the alphabet. XYZ is the 23rd volume. Ordinal #23. Maybe some rebel bookmaker wants to do it backwards, start with the end of the alphabet. The Encycopedia Titbrannica? It's still ordinal, just XYZ is now 2nd. What you mean is the 'Standard alphabetical order' and 'reverse standard alphabetical order' because the alphabet doesn't recognize XYZ as a single letter. Now I just need to figure out a way too shorten it since my crack team of acronym makers suggested Standard Alphabetical Numerical Elision and I don't like the idea of referring anything gematria related as being SANE?


Elision?
  Did you actually type 'elision?' Do you mean Ellison? Like Harlan Ellison? What's that about?


That's a term I am going to start using. I'm sick of typing "the reverse Sumerian (misnamed) cipher" all the time. Elision is a much better description than cipher to describe what's going on. It means contraction, omission or abridgement. Both ordinal and cipher have been picked for use because they sound cool and scholarly. I can throw around ten dollar words, too. I'll start off slow and begin by referring to a total, say, as being calculated with the Francis Bacon cipher (elision) and eventually drop the word cipher completely. The similarity to the name Ellison is just a happy coincidence since I'm going to use elision on purpose to annoy them. Harlan is considered to be.....kind of a dickhead.


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It has been brought to my attention that the database fields containing the numerical values for the letters in the formerly misnamed ciphers could be referred to as the Elision Fields. Our staff instantly concurred that this was a top notch choice for some upcoming puns. The party bringing this to our attention gets a cookie.