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Plea for humanity
The kind of books I've been reading as a result of Why have also been stretching my vocabulary. Let's have humor and honesty on how many readers immediately knew the meanings of
without looking them up. These are four that I've set myself to learn and use, for they sound so powerful. Page Prolepsis already stands for something so important that I do not know how we ever did without it, in such a concise and memorable form. Now I see that the three other choices have been Word of the Day on dictionary.com in the last year or two. But the definitions there are subtly different to their Oxford variants.
The necessary move from the sciences to the humanities for the Why is quite a big topic. We need I think to excel in both. But some humility and humanity goes a long way to making the transition bearable.
Construing it together is a tautology
Construe means not only to interpret or explain but to join text together, according to the Oxford guys. Cool huh? Intertextuality is where's it's at these days.
On not being traduced
This is very important and will be, for as long as I remain host. My instincts on this have changed, though, based partly on experience. The change of just one word in the first sentence of James Crook in Company Values v1 to v4 I now consider an outrage (a lot more was changed too). But, as pages and people recede into the past, this aim is harder to achieve. Having full history obviously helps.
Not too complimentary
If I say Why is about construing nugatory exiguity without anyone being traduced then I am not in fact being that positive about what we have achieved so far. Somehow, the fact that some readers will need to learn some new words in finding this out is a comfort. If nobody but myself has to turn to any of the definitions, then another of my inadequacies for doing the job has been revealed. But see Plea for humanity.
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