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First of all, I hope I'm on the correct site asking a question, usually I'm around on Stack Overflow itself.

So here's the story: I am designing a database table involving trading and I'd like to use the correct words, the table involves at least:

  • A user that wants to trade his item.
  • The item he wants to trade, codenamed sourceItem for now.
  • The item he wants to trade his item to, codenamed destinationItem for now.

What are the correct English words for sourceItem and destinationItem? I sadly don't even know it for Dutch (my language), so cannot translate it either.

Edit to clarify: I am looking for the genuine English naming of the words I've asked, I am not looking for a variable name or something of that kind.
I'm sorry if this question looked too much like a "How should I name this variable?"

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  • Your question is off topic here as seen in the help ages Naming, including naming programming variables/classes - the choices you made sounds OK to me. BronObject/DoelObject in Dutch - the latter perhaps better contain the word target than destination
    – mplungjan
    Dec 17, 2013 at 10:28
  • @mplungjan I believe it is still a genuine question. Maybe I filled the question itself too much with the programming background, but that is just the background information.
    – skiwi
    Dec 17, 2013 at 10:29
  • I do not make the rules. I just let you know why this may be downvoted/closed by those who find such things important
    – mplungjan
    Dec 17, 2013 at 10:31
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    As a side note, please stop misspelling "English". We can't be fixing it every time. Thank you.
    – RegDwigнt
    Dec 17, 2013 at 10:32
  • @RegDwigнt I'll do my best to avoid that in the future, I am usually not that concentrated on the precise grammar., I'll keep in mind for this site.
    – skiwi
    Dec 17, 2013 at 10:34

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When bartering, one party "offers" to trade. If the other party accepts this "consideration" the trade is "complete". The transaction is described as a "bartered" exchange.

Offer n. an expression of readiness to do or give something if desired.

Consideration n. a payment or reward.

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You can use availableItem and targetedItem.

I think these terms describe the requirements in a better way, as source and destination are not usually associated with items. However, it is a language and one may or may not agree with me.

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  • Sorry, I'm looking for the genuine English naming, not for variable names.
    – skiwi
    Dec 17, 2013 at 10:31

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