Subject: Re: professional package use?
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 23:19:01 -0500
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <uK-dnUIEtvWozHHfRVn-3w@speakeasy.net>
Kent M Pitman  <pitman@nhplace.com> wrote:
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| I kind of like "setting"...
| I might go with "milieu" if I thought English speakers could spell...
| Either of "backdrop" or "surrounding" is likely distinct enough. ...
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I would suggest "topic", because of its root meaning "of a place"
[also, Google for "memory theatre"], but that has baggage, too.
How about just the raw Greek, "topos"? [Not sure what the plural is,
but it must have one]. Or the Latin "locus" [pl. "loci"]?


-Rob

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