Can't disagree with this, Roger, nicely put.
I admire some poets who raid the elder wordhoard, but in my own writing
I tend toward hoping to find ways to use our general vocabulary, a best
I can with a sense of each word's ongoing history.
Doug
On 22-Dec-07, at 3:21 AM, Roger Day wrote:
> I suppose it's that writer's problem of what words to use where and
> when, to what end, the field of words wherein we pitch the tent of our
> work.
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