(urth) Top Posting Makes The Theoanthropos Cry

JWillard aldenweer at charter.net
Thu Aug 31 22:19:57 PDT 2006


Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:

>On 8/31/06, maru dubshinki <marudubshinki at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>Personally, I rather like the term "interleaving". To me, it makes it
>>sound as if our conversations are collaboratively authoring a book,
>>each page of which is a section.
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>Whereas I get twitchy when I hear or read the word "author" used as
>a verb...
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Why?  It's in the OED.  Have we stumbled upon a concern lexicological, 
Barthesian, or other?  Your ellipsis is practically tapping its toes out 
of impatience to explain itself...



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