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Wish we could taboo the regular expression libert[a-z]*
What do you have against libertines?
Nothing; I don't aim to get rid of those concepts, merely the unneeded connotational ballast introduced by the word "liberty", the linguistic equivalent of the One Ring.
Too much liberty makes you "feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread."? Come to think of it there is an element of truth to that.
Decision paralysis is a cruel binding that falls only on the unfettered.
Well, they tend not to be the most pleasant of people.
Why not all of liber[a-z]*?
Perhaps for the Liberian people?
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.
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.
^liber[a-z]+ will allow liber as well, just not liberate.
...don't you mean libert[a-z]*?
Thanks, fixed.