Adding new terms to the book

[ghost]

I have created an experimental branch of the book, to add new terms and their definitions.

So far, I have added Neoism. I plan to add Yangism and Mohism next. What do you think so far?

How do you choose which terms belong in the book?

[stpeter]

What is Neoism? I haven't heard of Yangism, either. Mohism is a possibility.

I'm working right now to prepare a printed / ebook version of The Ism Book. While doing so, I'm planning to remove some terms (e.g., acosmism). Just as with an open-source project, I'm trying to avoid feature-bloat and even simplify the code a bit. :-)

[ghost]

Neoism is a bit strange, to be honest. It's a philosophy that tries to defy classification — basically, it values this defiance for its own sake. It encourages culture jamming and collective identities. I find an interesting parallel between Anonymous and the Neoist philosophy; everyone branching forward and doing random things, all under collective names; people consider themselves as actually being Anonymous as a whole, and it gives them a sense of power.

Yangism was an ethically hedonistic philosophy, comparable to Epicureanism. It was opposed to Mohism and Confucianism, but it faded into obscurity after Confucianism became dominant.

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Ah, if you're working on a printed version, perhaps you could use ConTeXt to automate the XML term processing.

Would this printed version appear formatted as any standard printed dictionary?