Had some discussions with @crosby and @glynmoody about the term "content"<div><br></div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px; font-size: 13px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; ">
<i>Content<br>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.<br>
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.</i></blockquote>
<div style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px; font-size: 13px; "><br></div><div style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px; font-size: 13px; "> Some suggestions on alternatives that can be used in different contexts:</div>
<div style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px; font-size: 13px; ">-Creations</div><div style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px; font-size: 13px; ">-Products</div><div style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px; font-size: 13px; ">
-Intellectual work</div><div style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px; font-size: 13px; ">-Art</div><div style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px; font-size: 13px; ">-Soma </div><div style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px; font-size: 13px; ">
<br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">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.</span></font></div>
<div>'Content' qua filler/contentment => idiomatically equivalent to Soma <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soma_(Brave_New_World)">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soma_(Brave_New_World)</a></div><div><br></div>
<div>/josef</div><div><br></div><div>-- </div>Blog: <a href="http://collentine.com" target="_blank">http://collentine.com</a><br>Twitter: @collentine<br>
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