Literary Eponymous Adjectives

cathalmagus — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:30:45 +0000

Good title, eh? Well, the point of the matter isn’t much more serious than that. You may have come across the XEmacs 21.4 OXYMORON series of software releases, with subtitles such as 21.4.9 “Informed Management” and 21.4.19 “Constant Variable”. I quite like the idea of subtitles for mid-size releases, and thought that eponymous adjectives from literature (and perhaps other areas of writing, if they fit in with the spirit of the thing) would make excellent subtitles to attach to release milestones for Alexandria. Therefore, may I suggest 0.7 “Joycean”, 0.8 “Kafkaesque” and 1.0 “Shakespearean”? Other values can be filled in later, when we actually draw up a RoadMap; there are plenty more where they came from (viz Wikipedia). Either “Alexandrine” or “Aristotelian” would also make a particularly good subtitle for the 1.0 release.

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Literary Eponymous Adjectives