Thanks Sheila, Doug, Andrew. I can’t speak for what gets in my head
sometimes.
Bill
On Thu, 28 Nov 2019 at 5:12 am, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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...
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> Andrew
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> > On 28 Nov 2019, at 12:45 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> > 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)...
> >
> > 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]>
> >> wrote:
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> >>> ‘Actually quite reasonable’
> >>>
> >>> suggests surprisingly good
> >>>
> >>> Reasonable quality however just makes it to acceptable
> >>>
> >>> A reasonable return is good value
> >>>
> >>> But if ‘reasonable’ is the response to ‘What’s it like?’
> >>>
> >>> who wouldn’t think Iffy, then.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Reasonable as epithet is not particularly subject to reason it seems
> >>>
> >>> connoting perhaps ‘fair’
> >>>
> >>> but even there,
> >>>
> >>> fair as in medium quality, unremarkable?
> >>>
> >>> Or just as in ‘fair and reasonable’?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> A shade or two less than considerable
> >>>
> >>> Well ahead of negligible
> >>>
> >>> Reasonable so damned
> >>>
> >>> Adequate
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> >>> bw
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> > Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations &
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> > Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
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