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by IAN MC - 2017-03-09 09:02:33

Don :     I see the exact wording of the PM club poll is :-

" What is the best word to describe someone who has a device " ?

The word that immediately came to mind was ALIVE   ( which has to be better than the alternative )

But if it's nouns that we are after I thought about  CARRIER  then realised that this has connotations of HIV or leprosy . or it could describe me at the airport check-in with my wife's incredibly heavy suitcase.

IMPLANTEE sounds too much like AMPUTEE

 I'm not so sure about HOST , that normally means that I am paying for the drinks so my vote will be for RECIPIENT 

Ian

First thing that comes to mind

by Grateful Heart - 2017-03-09 10:21:57

Lucky Duck!!

Oh.....but that's 2 words.  

Grateful Heart

how about...

by Cabg Patch - 2017-03-09 12:42:58

Personally I like "Crammie" since that's how they installed mine. But how about...

Victim

Controlie

Condemned

Hostage

should I go on...? Then again, who on earth cares

My Opinion

by Artist - 2017-03-09 17:15:38

I favor the term Recipient.  Host sounds like we are serving the PM.  We have received the PM and are the recipient of the device and it's services.   The PM serves us we don't serve the PM.  Likewise, the term Patient sounds like we are sick and has a negative connotation for me. 

Keep the comments coming...

by admin - 2017-03-09 19:50:48

The poll is designed to generate discussion and also help me ensure we're using the right word to describe our members.  I did a thesaurus search and really couldn't find another suitable word prior to starting the poll.  I've never heard the word host being used to describe someone with a pacemaker.  According to Google, the definition of host is

noun

1. 

a person who receives or entertains other people as guests.

"a dinner-party host"

synonyms:party-giver, hostess, entertainer

"the host greeted the guests"

2. 

BIOLOGY

an animal or plant on or in which a parasite or commensal organism lives.

Definition

by Hamsquatch - 2017-03-09 23:17:29

cyborg 

noun

1.

a person whose physiological functioning is aided by or dependent upon a mechanical or electronic device.

Nailed it!

by donr - 2017-03-10 01:32:48

Admin, you did nail it!  Both socially & biologically.  Actually, so does "Cyborg" - but that sounhds too much like an Arnold Schwartzenegger movie about a machine that has red eyes & no human feelings.

I feel like a host - the device is welcome; it serves  a useful purpose and communicates with me.  It is friendly.  We have a warm, symbiotic relationship.  It goes where I go, does what I do, helps with the workload - all of that willingly.  When the work is  done, we sit down togetther and and rehash what we accomplished like a couple of old Army buddies.  We are bound together for life - either the PM or me.  Do I care - of course.  We depend upon one another for everything.

I prefer this definition because it is warm, caring and supportive.  It helps me cope w/o stress.  And, like Tatt-Man's discussion about running, makes all things possible for me that would be otherwise improbable or impossible.

Biologically, it is indeed a true parasite, but that seems so uncaring and inhuman.

The same is true for cyborg - just so inhuman, cold and mechanical.

BTW:  I learned the use of "Host" in here, back in the days of Electric Frank.

Think I'll continue to use it.

Donr

to be or not to be the chosen word

by hopefulheart - 2017-03-12 03:12:12

host....according to Merriam-Webster, biology definition 2b......the larger, stronger or dominant member of a commensal or symbiotic pair

hopeful heart

Hopeful;;;

by donr - 2017-03-12 11:08:38

...I'll take it!

Thanks for trhe support.

Donr

Chosen name

by TBrous&Chip - 2017-03-19 06:04:16

I like 'survivor'  since I would not be around without my pm.  Host is OK but this reminds me of an alien being implanted in my body or of a Twilight Zone show where bugs entered a body through an ear canal.  My sons-in-law both like cyborg.  

Just glad to be around.