Debate Forum?

Keith Little

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Feb 5, 2004, 4:39:06 PM2/5/04

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Hi,

I'm looking for another name for a "Debate Forum". It should be
something that isn't too hostile.

Thanks.

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Jim Ward

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Feb 5, 2004, 4:45:43 PM2/5/04

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Keith Little <keithlitt...@thecorch.com> wrote:

> I'm looking for another name for a "Debate Forum". It should be
> something that isn't too hostile.

Speaker's Corner? Agora?

RobertE

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Feb 5, 2004, 5:04:34 PM2/5/04

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"Keith Little" <keithlitt...@thecorch.com> wrote in message
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> I'm looking for another name for a "Debate Forum". It should be
> something that isn't too hostile.

Roundtable?
Symposium?

Michael Nitabach

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Feb 5, 2004, 5:42:45 PM2/5/04

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Keith Little <keithlitt...@thecorch.com> wrote in news:bvud5m
$10b5r0$1...@ID-125704.news.uni-berlin.de:

> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for another name for a "Debate Forum". It should be
> something that isn't too hostile.

Newsgroup? Nah.

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Mike Nitabach

Don Phillipson

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Feb 5, 2004, 5:19:14 PM2/5/04

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"Keith Little" <keithlitt...@thecorch.com> wrote in message
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> I'm looking for another name for a "Debate Forum". It should be
> something that isn't too hostile.

If you think "Debate Forum" is a hostile name,
you may be influenced by some particular
experience unknown to the rest of us.

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Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada)

Keith Little

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Feb 5, 2004, 6:02:59 PM2/5/04

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Don Phillipson wrote:
> "Keith Little" <keithlitt...@thecorch.com> wrote in message
> news:bvud5m$10b5r0$1...@ID-125704.news.uni-berlin.de...
>
>
>>I'm looking for another name for a "Debate Forum". It should be
>>something that isn't too hostile.
>
>
> If you think "Debate Forum" is a hostile name,
> you may be influenced by some particular
> experience unknown to the rest of us.

I wasn't saying that I thought "Debate Forum" was hostile. I was asking
for another name for it something that isn't, in itself, hostile.

Arcadian Rises

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Feb 5, 2004, 6:28:24 PM2/5/04

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>From: Keith Little keithlitt...@thecorch.com

>>>I'm looking for another name for a "Debate Forum". It should be
>>>something that isn't too hostile.

Discussion group or discussion panel.

Maelin

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Feb 7, 2004, 7:15:23 AM2/7/04

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http://thesaurus.reference.com/ lists synonyms of "debate" and "forum" as
below:

Entry: debate
Function: noun
Definition: discussion
Synonyms: agitation, altercation, argument, argumentation, blah-blah, bone,
bull yard, cogitation, consideration, contention, contest, controversy,
controverting, deliberation, dialectic, disputation, dispute, flak session,
forensic, hassle, match, meditation, mooting, polemic, powwow, rap, rap
session, rebutting, reflection, refuting, tiff, words, wrangle
Antonyms: agreement
Concept: discussion

Entry: conference
Function: noun
Definition: convention
Synonyms: appointment, argument, chalk talk, colloquium, colloquy,
confabulation, conferring, congress, consultation, conversation,
convocation, deliberation, discussion, forum, groupthink, huddle,
interchange, interview, meeting, palaver, parley, powwow, rap, rap session,
round table, seminar, symposium, talk, think-in, ventilation
Concept: business action

So you could probably chuck a nice-sounding pair out of the two, or even
just take one of the "convention" synonyms.

Hope this helps!

Maelin