Contradictory

[tsdragon]

A few days ago I say a web store that has, for some items, a dropdown list from which you are required to make a selection. The label for the dropdown list? Mandatory Option


Tracy Dryden

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For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

 

[tgreer]

I wish I had coined the phrase. I try to coin adages. If only that would add coinage, I'd be in business.

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[LTeeple]

I wish I had coined the phrase. I try to coin adages. If only that would add coinage, I'd be in business.

I like that!



Cheers!
Laura

 

[RodKnowlton]

How about labeling the dropdown thusly:

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Rod Knowlton
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[tsdragon]

Makes sense to me. That's the way I would have done it in the first place.


Tracy Dryden

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

 

[BobRodes]

As for mandatory option, it strikes me as semantic abbreviation rather than oxymoron, in that option is not defined here as a single non-mandatory choice, but rather a set of choices one of which must be made.