Me too. The problem is, general vocabularies differ. I knew the
meaninfs of at least 2/3 of the words in the article, for instance,
some of which were part of my everyday usage. I was a bit shocked
that the author knew so few--has he been hiding under a stone?
Mark
At 12:36 PM 12/22/2007, you wrote:
>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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