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This is a critique on the term choices in ''Dave Keenan & Douglas Blumeyer's guide to RTT'' and related articles. The main purpose of this essay is to raise awareness of good communication tools and warn against an unnecessary community fragmentation.

This is a critique on the term choices in ''Dave Keenan & Douglas Blumeyer's guide to RTT'' and related articles. The main purpose of this essay is to raise awareness of good communication tools and warn against an unnecessary community fragmentation. The entries will be ordered by difficulty – those which can be easily fixed come at the top and those which may require deeper investigations are given at the bottom.

== "Domain basis" ==

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=== My suggestion ===

My suggestion: use ''subgroup'' and ''subgroup basis''. These are technically correct, consistent, and as clear as they can get.

== "Prime-count vector" ==

''Prime-count vector'' is D&D's replacement for ''monzo''. This is one of the worse proposed terms. A vector is a mathematical structure rather than a form of presentation, so a JI interval is a vector no matter how it is written. For example, the syntonic comma, 81/80, and {{monzo| -4 4 -1 }} are all vectors, and since the vectors represent the number of each prime harmonics, they are prime-count vectors. It would be ridiculous to say the syntonic comma was not a vector, or to say 81/80 was not a vector.

A monzo is a particular form of presentation. The ''monzo'' article clearly tells us a monzo is "a way of notating a JI interval". In the more technical ''monzos and interval space'' article it reads: "this is often written in ket vector notation as […] in which case it is called a monzo." In the above example, neither the syntonic comma nor 81/80 is a monzo, but {{monzo| -4 4 -1 }}.

I will not have a problem with Plainsound Music Edition's ''harmonic space coordinates'' as a synonym of ''monzo'', because a list of coordinates is indeed a form of presentation. ''Monzo'' has the advantage that it is concise – more on the name side than on the description side.

My suggestion: use ''monzo'', and if you need to explain it, try saying they are ''harmonic space coordinates''.

== "Held interval" ==

I really don't get the obsession of expressing a single coherent concept in multiple words. A held interval is simply a constraint. A constraint is something that constrains the system.

My suggestion: use ''constraint''.

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-This is a critique on the term choices in ''Dave Keenan & Douglas Blumeyer's guide to RTT'' and related articles. The main purpose of this essay is to raise awareness of good communication tools and warn against an unnecessary community fragmentation.
+This is a critique on the term choices in ''Dave Keenan & Douglas Blumeyer's guide to RTT'' and related articles. The main purpose of this essay is to raise awareness of good communication tools and warn against an unnecessary community fragmentation. The entries will be ordered by difficulty – those which can be easily fixed come at the top and those which may require deeper investigations are given at the bottom.
 == "Domain basis" ==
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 === My suggestion ===
 My suggestion: use ''subgroup'' and ''subgroup basis''. These are technically correct, consistent, and as clear as they can get.
+== "Prime-count vector" ==
+''Prime-count vector'' is D&D's replacement for ''monzo''. This is one of the worse proposed terms. A vector is a mathematical structure rather than a form of presentation, so a JI interval is a vector no matter how it is written. For example, the syntonic comma, 81/80, and {{monzo| -4 4 -1 }} are all vectors, and since the vectors represent the number of each prime harmonics, they are prime-count vectors. It would be ridiculous to say the syntonic comma was not a vector, or to say 81/80 was not a vector.
+A monzo is a particular form of presentation. The ''monzo'' article clearly tells us a monzo is "a way of notating a JI interval". In the more technical ''monzos and interval space'' article it reads: "this is often written in ket vector notation as […] in which case it is called a monzo." In the above example, neither the syntonic comma nor 81/80 is a monzo, but {{monzo| -4 4 -1 }}.
+I will not have a problem with Plainsound Music Edition's ''harmonic space coordinates'' as a synonym of ''monzo'', because a list of coordinates is indeed a form of presentation. ''Monzo'' has the advantage that it is concise – more on the name side than on the description side.
+My suggestion: use ''monzo'', and if you need to explain it, try saying they are ''harmonic space coordinates''.
+== "Held interval" ==
+I really don't get the obsession of expressing a single coherent concept in multiple words. A held interval is simply a constraint. A constraint is something that constrains the system.
+My suggestion: use ''constraint''.