# What should we promote as the "generic" term for Markdown/CommonMark-like markup languages?

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**Created:** [September 19, 2014, 10:20pm UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/what-should-we-promote-as-the-generic-term-for-markdown-commonmark-like-markup-languages/647 "2014-09-19T22:20:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![BatmanAoD](https://cdn.commonmark.org/user_avatar/talk.commonmark.org/batmanaod/32/422_2.png) [@BatmanAoD](https://talk.commonmark.org/u/BatmanAoD)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2014, 11:21pm UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/what-should-we-promote-as-the-generic-term-for-markdown-commonmark-like-markup-languages/647/2 "2014-09-19T23:21:38Z")

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This term would be helpful for writing a [philosophy statement](http://talk.commonmark.org/t/commonmark-should-have-a-philosophy/613?u=batmanaod).

Some more suggestions:

- quickmark
- genmark (for “generic markup (or down)”)
- GML (for “generic markup language”)

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