How about "pushy"?
(cackle, cackle, cackle)
Candice
At 12:04 PM 9/21/00 +1000, you wrote:
>offence taken. what would you prefer, dear hugh - since you are one of the
>poets i refer to as 'emergent' - would you prefer 'new' (god help us), 'next
>generation (hardly accurate), a phallic 'rising' (????), some tightly wound
>definite term like the 'post-generation of '68', or the pretentious
>'postmodern', perhaps 'immature' or 'amateur' might be applicable to certain
>poets??
>
>(for those who don't have any idea what hughy and i are talking about, my
>thesis is a study of Australia's 'emergent' poetries (1990-) which includes
>poets who have published their first collection since 1990.)
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>
>hugh (and anyone interested) - do you have any better suggestions???? i am
>open to different terms
>
>i await your gracious reply
>regards
>deb
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: Hugh Tolhurst <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 9:46 AM
>Subject: Re: Tired words
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>> Dear Andrew
>>
>> My sister has a cat called 'serendipity' or
>> 'seren' for short. My favourite tired word
>> in Oz poetry is 'anti-pastoral'. Oh and then
>> there's 'emerging' or 'emergent' (no offence
>> intended to Deb Comerford).
>>
>> best
>>
>> Hugh
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Andrew Jackson <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 8:30 AM
>> Subject: Re: Tired words
>>
>>
>> > Yep!
>> >
>> > 'Minutiae', 'tendril', 'shard' are definitely some for the least-wanted
>> > list.
>> >
>> > On a similar topic, anyone else see that list of the Nation's
>> > Favourite Words in (I think) The Express newspaper last week?
>> > Survey of 15,000 people I believe . . . in first place was
>> > 'serendipity'. Interesting that two made-up words (from the
>> > Harry Potter series) also made it into the top 10 -- 'quiddich' (sp?)
>> > and 'muggle'. I think 'onomatopoeia' made top 5.
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