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Christian Crumlish  
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 More options Jul 23 2010, 4:06 pm
From: Christian Crumlish <x...@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:06:48 -0700
Local: Fri, Jul 23 2010 4:06 pm
Subject: Re: Zawinsky principle of social software, "... is single", "... is in a relationship", which (new?) verb?

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Monica Keller <monica.kel...@gmail.com>wrote:

> So we would then need some new verbs "date", "marry", "break up",
> "reconcile"... ok im being funny but yes that would follow the current
> model we have with friend and follow.

hmm, isn't there an ontology problem in trying to map out the contours of
human relationships, especially at a meta-level like this? is there some way
to abstract a grammar for it so that different endpoints can share their
possible relationship states and work within them?

     --xian

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