Douglas Barbour wrote:
> Oh, right, a 'reader' -- what? I mean, how many still exist?
>
> (Well,despite official denials, quite a few....)
>
> Doug
Oops, you hit another of my many buttons, Doug--this one giving a word
like "reader" (or "poet") special status by reading it to mean "good
reader" or "real reader." For me, just about everyone reads, and is
therefore a reader. "Serious readers" are what there aren't enough of.
--Bob
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