Dear Terry,
Thanks for your reply. I’ll stay with what I wrote. I stated: “perhaps the largest and most broad definition that works for all approaches to design would make the most theoretical sense, with subsidiary definitions and the use of adjectives working to delimit narrower perspectives.” I’ll stick with what I wrote.
Since you point to that sentence, I will tighten it a bit: “perhaps the largest and broadest definition would make the most theoretical sense. The definition with greatest coverage works for all approaches to design. We can use subsidiary definitions and adjectives to delimit narrower perspectives.” The earlier statement and this one are equivalent in meaning.
What you wrote is not equivalent in meaning. In fact, it is difficult to understand what this sentence means: “The definition of design that makes the most theoretical sense and that is the largest and most broad definition, with subsidiary definitions and the use of adjectives working to delimit narrower perspectives.”
There is no verb in this sentence. What you wrote is a series of noun clauses. No verb governs the main action of the sentence
You seem to be confusing two different words: [1] “compliment” with an “i” and [2] “complement” with an “e.” To *compliment* is to say something nice or to praise. To *complement* is to complete something else or add to it in a way that improves it.
Examples of a compliment: I might compliment a colleague by saying, “This paper is important. It sheds new light on a significant problem.” In a posh restaurant, the sommelier might say to you, “I compliment you on your choice of wines.”
Examples of a complement: I am cooking dinner at the moment. As I put into into the over, I was thinking, “The perfect beer for this roast is Opigårds Thurbo Double India Pale Ale.” In a posh restaurant, the waiter might say to you, “This cheese would be a perfect complement to your fruit.”
I wrote something quite different to what you had written. Since we disagree, I did not expect a compliment. Neither did I expect that your revised statement would complete or improve what I wrote.
Yours,
Ken
Ken Friedman, PhD, DSc (hc), FDRS | Editor-in-Chief | 设计 She Ji. The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation | Published by Tongji University in Cooperation with Elsevier | URL: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/she-ji-the-journal-of-design-economics-and-innovation/
Chair Professor of Design Innovation Studies | College of Design and Innovation | Tongji University | Shanghai, China ||| University Distinguished Professor | Centre for Design Innovation | Swinburne University of Technology | Melbourne, Australia
Terry Love wrote:
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I was about to complement you and then I reread what you had posted.
I would have complemented you if you had written,
'The definition of design that makes the most theoretical sense and that is the largest and most broad definition, with subsidiary definitions and the use of adjectives working to delimit narrower perspectives.'
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