Mind-mapping might be hyphenated in some grammatically legitimate
reality, but in the Buzan Centre it is not. Check out:
http://www.buzancentre.com/trd_mrk.html
I am definitely changing to 'thought showers', though, which, using my
powers of lateral thinking, I will associate with the idea 'golden'.
Cheers
Iain
PS: whether these words, though I think it might be 'brainstorming'
that is actually objected to, are offensive to people who have epilepsy
is really for people with epilepsy to decide (not as a collective but
individually), so if someone said to me "Please don't use
brainstorming, I have epilepsy and it offends me" I would take what
he or she was telling me on face value without (much) external
validation. I'm more than willing to admit no one has ever said that,
but I have heard people object to 'fit' rather than 'seizure'. I also
have a sneaking suspicion that the original comment may be one of those
'manhole cover' or 'mastercopy' urban myths, where the "gordon bennett,
you'll never guess what they're objecting to now!", "PC-is-rubbish" mob
suggest something has become verboten when it actually hasn't.
Happy days!
Iain
On Mon, 7 Apr 2003 13:23:00 +0100 Bernard Doherty
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Whether mind-mapping is copyrighted or not, it has a hyphen.
> Otherwise, every time I said to someone, 'Would you mind mapping
> previously uncharted territory of naked exploitation of people with
> learning difficulties?', I would have to pay Tony Buzan a fee. Oh,
> somehow that doesn't seem as incongruous as I first thought. In the
> meantime, as usual it is not so much whether people people can lay
> claim to legal title, more a question of whether they can find a court
> to support them. In this case, unless someone was specifically
> referring to a product or a learning programme produced by Buzan, I
> doubt he'd have any luck. Both parts of the phrase were in common use
> before the one-man publishing phenomenon bestowed his gifts to the
> world (i.e., it's not like Kodak or Xerox). Just a view, as usual.
>
> Regards, Bernard
>
> On Mon, 7 Apr 2003 12:25:14 +0100 Ian Webb <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Some years ago when I was up in Scotland the same was said to me so I did some research. I
> > could find no-one to sustain this argument. However Mind mapping is a term that is used by
> > Tony and Barry Buzan and I understand is their copyright.
> >
> > Ian
> >
> > Ian Webb MNADO
> > Learning Support Adviser
> >
> > >>> [log in to unmask] 04/07/03 10:06am >>>
> > Hi
> >
> > An FE colleague recently revealed that her institution discouraged the
> > use of the above terms - as they are regarded as non PC, the reason
> > being that they may gve offence to people with epilepsy.
> >
> > Apparently, though, it's okay to use 'spider-diagrams' and 'thought
> > showers' (gawd!).
> >
> > Perhaps I'm being insensitive but I find this level of 'control' quite
> > irritating and can't quite see how someone with epilepsy could be
> > disturbed by the terms.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> > Peter Hill
> >
> > --
> > 01527 500324
> > [log in to unmask]
> > www.study-pro.com
> >
> > Dyslexia Consultancy and Resources
>
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