How do we use the word 'a scribe' correctly?

[Tamara]

Hi

Is it 'normal' to use the word scribe in the technical text to refer to the (clerical, secretarial) role of a person in some kind of team meetings?

(The text I'm reading is written in AmE (and the book itself has been published in the US) , but the author seems to be not a native English speaker.)
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[Alan]

Hi Tamara,

Using the word scribe in the sense you want would to me appear slightly jocular if you referred with that title to the person taking the minutes of a meeting. A minute clerk would be the official description. Scribe to my ears is really someone like the medieval scribe copying texts of a religious or historical nature.

Alan
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[Tamara]

Thanks a lot, Alan, for your response. I often need such a feedback…

[Yankee]

:lol:

Techies are just plain different. They live on a different planet and have their own special dialect. :lol:
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