[pp.int.general] Correct word usage for PP ('content')

[Josef Ohlsson Collentine]

Had some discussions with @crosby and @glynmoody about the term "content"

*Content
> If you want to describe a feeling of comfort and satisfaction, by all means
> say you are content, but using the word as a noun to describe written and
> other works of authorship adopts an attitude you might rather avoid. It
> regards these works as a commodity whose purpose is to fill a box and make
> money. In effect, it disparages the works themselves.
> Those who use this term are often the publishers that push for increased
> monopoly power in the name of the authors of the works. The term content
> reveals their real attitude towards these works and their authors.*


 Some suggestions on alternatives that can be used in different contexts:
-Creations
-Products
-Intellectual work
-Art
-Soma

The last term 'soma' is a bit harder to grasp but could be very useful as an
internal derogative term for 'content'. This could be used to make advocacy
groups focus on the right aspects. The word is unsuitable to be used in
public though because of not being a known word.
'Content' qua filler/contentment => idiomatically equivalent to Soma
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soma_(Brave_New_World)

/josef

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