Bug#1020248: [Git][dbnpolicy/policy][master] 2 commits: Use stanza to refer to deb822 parts instead of paragraph

[Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>]

Hi all,

while I do not want to pull the handbrake I would like to add my
minority opinion to that change:

Le Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 04:11:43PM +0000, Russ Allbery (@rra) a écrit :
> 
> The «stanza» name is a commonly used and understood term when referring
> to deb822 blocks. Although «paragraph» is commonly used it has the
> problem of being confusing as it then makes it hard to distinguish
> actual text paragraphs in prose, while «stanza» is a very specific
> term that is not applied anywhere else in the deb822 context, so it's
> always more clear and specific.

I disagree with this point of view.  In my own case I had to take a
dictionary to learn what a stanza is, while the word paragraph is surely
know at least to anybody who studied English in a classroom.

In my own field, (molecular biology) we (or at least some of us) are
putting some effort to eliminate jargon and use simple words that makes
written documents more accessible to the public.  This is why I prefered
paragraph to stanza when working on the specification.

If I were to redo such a specification from scratch, I would ask
non-European language speakers their opinion too.

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles