Yes I understand it better with this version- and like the use of 'iffy' . I have heard it oft but ne'er seen it in print...
Andrew
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> On 28 Nov 2019, at 12:45 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> The 2nd version works a bit better, Bill, & it’s a fine argument for never using that word in any other poem… (I mean that for all of us)...
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> Doug
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>> On Nov 27, 2019, at 9:08 AM, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> I really like this, Bill. Thought this was sent last night. Didn't press
>> send : )
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>> On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 1:55 PM Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
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>>> ‘Actually quite reasonable’
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>>> suggests surprisingly good
>>>
>>> Reasonable quality however just makes it to acceptable
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>>> A reasonable return is good value
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>>> But if ‘reasonable’ is the response to ‘What’s it like?’
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>>> who wouldn’t think Iffy, then.
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>>> Reasonable as epithet is not particularly subject to reason it seems
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>>> connoting perhaps ‘fair’
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>>> but even there,
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>>> fair as in medium quality, unremarkable?
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>>> Or just as in ‘fair and reasonable’?
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>>> A shade or two less than considerable
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>>> Well ahead of negligible
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>>> Reasonable so damned
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>>> Adequate
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>>> bw
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