On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, david.bircumshaw wrote...
>I'm sorry, but I have a violent antipathy to all this: if you write, you use
>your own skin, not computer programs, nor thesauri, nor most definitely
>rhyming dictionaries. Nor assontantal wordbanks. Writing comes from one's
>own contingency, it is not a matter for calculation in a field of others,
>anyone who relies on such aids shouldn't be claiming to be there in the
>first place.
I'm with Helen and Neville on this. I'll use anything that's useful. I
can't see the virtue in eschewing technology from an arbitrary point or
various aides-memoires.
I suppose there is a danger of using a rhyming dictionary badly - maybe
to find a word that rhymes that one wouldn't have thought of using. But
one can also use it well, to find the right word one would have thought
of using if one's memory had been better.
Another good use of a rhyming dictionary is to confirm the sneaking
suspicion that there *isn't* a word that rhymes and does what you want,
and you're going to have to abandon that route and do a bit of
unravelling. Saves a lot of time, that.
Regards,
--
Peter
http://www.hphoward.demon.co.uk/poetry/
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