- From: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 21:49:53 -0700
- To: Alan Stearns <stearns@adobe.com>
- Cc: Philippe Wittenbergh <ph.wittenbergh@l-c-n.com>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
> On Jul 23, 2015, at 9:02 PM, Alan Stearns <stearns@adobe.com> wrote: > > On 7/23/15, 5:06 PM, "Philippe Wittenbergh" <ph.wittenbergh@l-c-n.com> > wrote: > >> >>> On Jul 24, 2015, at 07:37, Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Embiggening is clear even to people >>>> who haven't heard the word before (unlike cromulent). >>> >>> I don't know if that is true for all, including all non-native English >>> speakers. >> >> What he said… >> As a non-native English reader, I had to look it up (Dictionary.app: “no >> result found”). > > This is a compelling reason for me to change it. I’ll use “Enlarging” > instead. Not to be too nit-picky, but I’d suggest “Expanding”. “Enlarging” sounds like you are scaling it up instead of applying a positive offset. The version of Adobe Illustrator I have at home has “Offset Path” that is more or less the same, but it allows negative offsets. For border-image, we had ‘border-image-outset’, so you could say “Outsetting”, but that isn’t really meaning what the typical dictionary definition is: setting out on a journey (though Googling “offsetting path” can make it more clear).
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