Sally,
I work as a sub-editor on a provincial daily paper and I'm afraid the use of
"image" rather "picture" or "photo", in newspapers at least, is just another
example of how managers in this industry seem determined to use anything
other than plain, straightforward English.
It's also possibly because the software we use calls them images, but I
still don't see why we have to.
Matt
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From: Sally Evans [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 12 November 2003 06:11
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Subject: Re: Comments please.( Helen and Gary)and Sue
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Sue, I am referring to the use of image for photo or other visual image in a
paper, website, or anywhere else where we would quite naturally have said
picture a couple of years ago - certainly in UK - so Carlos Williams was not
catalyist of that though he may provide an early authority.
bw
SallyE
on 11/11/03 9:51 pm, Sue Scalf at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Sally, I think what has happened is that image has become intertwined
> with the word imagery, which in poetry refers to everything involving
> the senses, i.e., sight, sound, touch, taste, smell. Also imagery can
> be a pattern set up in the poem that takes on symbolic value. Sue
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