reusing terms to create more complex terms about fluent HOT 2 OPEN

@stasm - can you recall the rationale?

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I have a vague memory of wanting to forbid exactly this kind of use-cases. IIRC, my argument was that this increases the complexity, makes the translations harder to reason about, and is generally something that programmers like to do, because we like factoring things out in the name of DRY. Whereas Fluent was based around WET: write everything twice, because we assumed WET would easier for translators, translation memories, and machine translation systems.

When you're saying -foo is just an abstraction around -bar, it sounds like a red flag to me. Can you provide a more concrete example of what you're trying to achieve?

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