Is this considered black magic?

[Skip Montanaro]

    Laura> I have a new problem.  I've just lost a major amount of precision
    Laura> in my language usage.  What is the collective noun for
    Laura> 'attributes that aren't methods (you can't call them)'?

What's about

    method                      the attributes you call
    data attribute              the attributes you don't call
    attribute                   either, when you don't care which

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