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I've always thought it's something to do with how you can customize fried rice to your heart's content, and the overall versatility of rice in general.
But given that it is offensive, what is the closest alternative that gives a similar, if not the same nuance without the offense? What do we mean when we say ‘rice’/‘ricing’ in desktop environment customization anyway?
Cook/Dish was my example, using other food related terms are also acceptable since the main conflict is that "rice" has a double meaning as you've shown. Plus, wouldn't it be cooler if everyone had their own personal food related title to their submissions? Or if the literal comm description didn't reference the term "rice" thereby setting it as the de-facto vocabulary?
The example you've given is really appealing, though my concern is more about finding something that's already in fairly wide circulation (wide relative to the niche we're taking about here).
Don't get me wrong, coming up with a new sense of an existing word like in your example is certainly doable, but I suppose that it's a lot harder than adopting a synonymous term
If there's none close enough in meaning and nuance already in use, then yeah, personally, I'm okay with cook/dish.
It will always take courage to break away from the incumbent vocabulary and experiment with something new. If this comm couldn't survive/thrive without the use of this term, then the comm is as weak as the term itself.
In this particular case, it can be supposed that there isn't that big of a hurdle anyways. The community (the Linux DE customization community) in general isn't that large to begin with, and I suppose, perhaps with a huge amount of bias, that a substantial percentage of the community already is here in Lemmy anyways. That makes things a lot easier getting the necessary amount of people to use the alternative.
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