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Comment author: magfrump 05 October 2012 11:58:31PM 2 points [-]

Why not all of liber[a-z]*?

Comment author: TrE 06 October 2012 07:08:45AM 5 points [-]

Perhaps for the Liberian people?

Comment author: faul_sname 10 October 2012 04:19:08AM *  1 point [-]

I don't think you deliberately overlooked the other instances of "liber", though if you're a programmer of moderately high caliber, you could fairly easily look up all words that contain "liber" (if you're in the habit of liberally applying your programming skills).

Also, the above sentence contained three instances of why you don't want to (and didn't look that contrived), although I'm pretty sure you have to be deliberately looking for them.

Comment author: magfrump 10 October 2012 07:06:58AM 0 points [-]

Sorry, you're correct at least insofar as I should have said ^liber[a-z]*

The adverb "liberally" will be a casualty since it's a homonym for the politically charged version I'm trying to avoid.

I'll grant that "liber" and "liberate" also fall victim here, but I would be surprised if it was hard to rephrase either of those in almost any conversation.

Comment author: faul_sname 10 October 2012 08:19:36AM 1 point [-]

^liber[a-z]+ will allow liber as well, just not liberate.