In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Richard Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes
Chaslot G (MICC) wrote:
Question for native English speakers: do you think this technique is
best described by “progressive unpruning” or “progressive widening”?
By neither.
Allow me to suggest a third alternative, one which I believe to be best,
"progressive grafting".
Just as a gardener "prunes a tree", so the horticultural metaphor is continued,
broadened, by describing the _addition_of_a_branch_ to a tree as "grafting".
I prefer "unprune" to "graft".
"Graft" implies adding something to a tree which does not naturally
belong there. "Unprune" suggests that there is a branch which was
implicitly there all along, you earlier decided not to consider it, but
you have now reversed that decision.
If you want to reject "unprune" because it "isn't a word", then use
"grow" or "widen", which suggest adding something which is naturally
part of that tree.
Nick
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