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May 10, 2005

Alignment rap: Cats and Dogs, playing together, nicely

I'll leave these here just drying on the sun line instead of in the hot tumbler, until I need to use the clamps for something else.

Collaboration: two parties working concurrently on the same goal for the same reason.

Co-operation: two parties working concurrently on different things in the same place, compatibly.

So far, if you're a parent, you already knew those two were different. If you're not, you might have felt like arguing. Don't bother.

Correspondence: two parties knowingly and separately acting on the same thing, compatibly.

Corellation: two parties separately acting on different but interrelated things.

Coincidence: two parties acting on something at the same time or place, whether different "somethings" or not, but usually meaning on the same something.

And in the not-so-nice category:
Competition: two parties working on the same thing for different reasons.

Collision: two parties working on different things for different reasons in the same place at the same time, incompatibly.

Confusion: two parties thinking that each knows what the other one is doing but at least one of them being wrong at least at this place and/or time.

Corruption: two parties, where one party has the other party unknowingly doing the first party's work for the first party's reason.

Coercion: one party unwillingly doing the other party's work for the other party's reason.

Constipation: one party just not being able to get rid of the other party. :-O

Posted by Malcolm Ryder at May 10, 2005 3:47 PM

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