@Dɑvïd Looks like you dodged the stray correction bullet, but if you keep losing 1 point per day to downvotes you're never going to get there.

@Dɑvïd I gave you a vote ;)

And with that, please welcome this site's first 20k user. Thanks for all the contributions @Dɑvïd!

@curiousdannii :-o

@Caleb Ha! Thanks - seems I wasn't DVing fast enough. ;)

I could still dip <20K yet....

Real question for @Susan or anyone else with an opinion: if you saw either of the phrases (a) dystopic dysplasia, or (b) dysplasial dystopia ... would either of them commiuncate anything? How would you make sense of them? are they equivalents or somehow differently nuanced? !תודה רבה :)

@Dɑvïd Without having thought about it too much: dystopia is in my mind part of a futuristic novel; dysplasia is a medical term. So dystopic dysplasia would be Aldous Huxley's take on precancerous cellular material, and dysplastic* dystopia would be expansion of immature versions of the World State. *Using instead of "dysplasial", a term I don't recognize.

Will let you know if further reflection yields anything more substantive. (I'm guessing you're looking for a medical use of dystopia, which I'm not familiar with -- we normally use "ectopia/ectopic" for what I imagine that would mean, though a Google search suggests that the former exists.) !על לא דבר

@Dɑvïd @Susan maybe diastrophic dysplasia?

Otherwise, maybe the abnormal growth of an undesirable society? Meaning perhaps "abnormal" as worse than expected?

@ScottS Interesting (I'm not familiar with that condition), though I suppose "diastrophic" is from δια + στρεφω (as in γενεὰ ἄπιστος καὶ διεστραμμένη :-) ) rather than δυσ- + τόπος (> dystopic).

@ScottS Yeah, I guess dysplasia technically just means malformed, though in medicine it generally (with some exceptions, apparently including diastrophic dysplasia) means mutated in a pre-cancerous way. I don't know about outside of medicine though.

@Susan @ScottS Thanks for participating in my terminology experiment -- the feedback was truly helpful. I was interested to know whether these terms (one at home in medicine, the other in literature) could be combined to suggest something closer to their "root" meaning -- but it seems not. ;)

I was reaching for something that could convey a kind of "wrong thing, wrong place" designation. Of course, "dystopia" ought to be able to do that job, but as Susan noted, it's already firmly embedded in a literature of futuristic nightmares. I suppose it's an argument for just using plain prose, and eschewing the technical terms‌​.

@Susan ("~plasial" was suggested by analogous forms in the Wikipedia article, but it seems I guessed wrong.) :)

@Dɑvïd "Plain prose" would be plainer :-). Would not "misplaced" work?