Bug#649717: Strange wording in package description

Justin B Rye jbr at edlug.org.uk
Wed Nov 23 21:51:01 UTC 2011


Ben Finney wrote:
> Justin B Rye:
>> Thanks; your examples make it clear that the theme is indeed
>> "graphically simple", or perhaps "highly conventionalised".
> 
> The word “conventionalised” seems like a neologism to me. Would
> “stylised” suit the purpose?

"Styli[sz]ed" is perfect!  It could go in place of "simplified" if
there's time for a third draft.

I see other people using the word "conventionali[sz]ed" on the web,
but mostly in the sort of context where the phrase "that's a matter of
semantics" would be followed with a bibliographical reference to
Wittgenstein.
-- 
JBR	with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
	sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package



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