Cyborg, Android or something else?

[alohadave]

Can I check your Guild of Pedants membership card? I’m responsible for issuing them and I can’t recall your application form.

Em

I'd just like to see gynoid used. Why should mechanical people be shackled by male gender titles?

 

[EmilyMiller]

I'd just like to see gynoid used. Why should mechanical people be shackled by male gender titles?

I’m with you on that - particularly the shackled bit .

Em

 

[AwkwardlySet]

I'd just like to see gynoid used. Why should mechanical people be shackled by male gender titles?

Because mechanical penises look better than mechanical tits.

 

[MelanieShaman]

Because mechanical penises look better than mechanical tits.

I mean...

 

[Bamagan]

As a not-serious suggestion: hubots.

 

[XerXesXu]

Yeah, I'm using android mostly... but I'm trying to see if something else... something cool comes to mind.

Shaman?

 

[TheRedChamber]

Your Plastic Pal Who's Fun to Be With?

 

[AwkwardlySet]

Your Plastic Pal Who's Fun to Be With?

She was talking about androids, not dildoes...

 

[TheRedChamber]

She was talking about androids, not dildoes...

Meh, in ten year's time, they'll be the same device anyway.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Your Plastic Pal Who's Fun to Be With?

Surely you can't be sirius.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Your Plastic Pal Who's Fun to Be With?

I got that, even if @AwkwardlySet clearly didn’t .

Em

 

[EmilyMiller]

Surely you can't be sirius.

Are you @onehitwanda ’s alt?

Em

 

[Bramblethorn]

I'd just like to see gynoid used. Why should mechanical people be shackled by male gender titles?

Anthroid, then. Just because they're electronic doesn't mean they have to be binary.

Or, for the synthpop fans, there's "Friends".

 

[M_K_Babalon]

I'm working on my cyberpunk story and I have a completely synthetic "being". What should I call them? I know android is copy written, cyborg doesn't "feel" right... suggestions?

You can use android, it's not copy written. Cyborgs are part human, and as best girl Darla states, in my novel; "I'm an android, not a robot. A robot cuts your grass and builds cars. I can think for myself and learn. Robots are appliances."

A synthetic being can be a synthoid, bioandroid, or some play on fake human.

 

[M_K_Babalon]

This is not correct. One cannot obtain copyright protection under US law for an individual word. Lucasfilm apparently has made efforts, some successful, to obtain TRADEMARK registration of the word DROID, but trademark ownership simply means it has the right to prevent others from using the mark in ways that would cause confusion in the marketplace regarding whatever goods or services it offers under that mark. Using the term "Android" as a descriptive term for a synthetic person in a work of fiction creates no risk of confusion, so one wouldn't have a problem. The term ANDROID has been around for a long time.

That depends. To copywrite the word "flexible", the Flxible Side car, later bus company had to remove the "e".

 

[MrPixel]

Bishop.

Thank you, @Djmac1031 . At least somebody got the joke. Tough crowd.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Thank you, @Djmac1031 . At least somebody got the joke. Tough crowd.

I got it too, hun. But I’d have said Ash .

Em

 

[Bramblethorn]

That depends. To copywrite the word "flexible", the Flxible Side car, later bus company had to remove the "e".

Again, that's a trademark, not a copyright.

https://trademarks.justia.com/864/06/flxible-86406691.html

 

[M_K_Babalon]

Again, that's a trademark, not a copyright.

https://trademarks.justia.com/864/06/flxible-86406691.html

Ehh... I was close enough.