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Topic:	9) The very picture (1 of 4), Read 41 times
Conf:	Word Fugitives, with Barbara Wallraff
From:	Barbara Wallraff ([email protected])
Date:	Thursday, September 09, 1999 09:42 AM

Joe Panko, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, writes: "Many companies require their employees to wear a photo-ID badge at work. What should one call it on a day when someone wears the same shirt that they are wearing in their badge photo? They look exactly like the picture on their badge. Is there a word for the event? For the person?"

Topic:	9) The very picture (2 of 4), Read 40 times
Conf:	Word Fugitives, with Barbara Wallraff
From:	Aaron Reneker ([email protected])
Date:	Thursday, September 09, 1999 05:04 PM

Serendipity (noun)
Serendipitous (adjective)
Deja vu (desperation phrase)

Aaron

Topic:	9) The very picture (3 of 4), Read 26 times
Conf:	Word Fugitives, with Barbara Wallraff
From:	Matt Swift ([email protected])
Date:	Saturday, September 11, 1999 06:17 AM

mimesis

perhaps there is a term from geometry, architecture, or textiles regarding a duplication of one figure at a smaller scale

Topic:	9) The very picture (4 of 4), Read 12 times
Conf:	Word Fugitives, with Barbara Wallraff
From:	Martin Melhus ([email protected])
Date:	Tuesday, September 14, 1999 12:31 PM

In Chaos theory, when structures repeat themselves at different scales (such as in the Mandelbrot set, clouds, and so forth,) the phenomena is referred to as being self-similar. Admittedly, this is something of a cop-out by mathematicians, and a good word for this might enter the scientific lexicon, in addition to being used for the ID badge example above.

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