In current usage over here . . .

Post #420,658 by Andrew Grygus 10/6/17 3:52:33 AM 10/6/17 3:52:33 AM Reply	In current usage over here . . . . . the word "stricken" is most used in contexts of love, art and architecture. That is not the kind of context I intended to state. You remind me of a high school English teacher who marked me down for using the "obsolescent" word "undoubtably" instead of the "current" word "undoubtedly". I very specifically wanted to say it was not possible to doubt it, not that it was generally not doubted. I lost plenty of faith in English teachers over that. Unfortunately, at the time, I was not aware of Ambrose Bierce's definition of "obsolete", which would have put her in her place.
Post #420,660 by a6l6e6x 10/6/17 2:54:34 PM 10/6/17 2:54:34 PM Reply	Re: "the word "stricken" is most used in contexts of love, art and architecture" In Sun City, it's in the context of a heart attack! :) Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov
Post #420,712 by CRConrad 10/9/17 7:02:54 AM 10/9/17 7:02:54 AM Reply	Except you seem to have switched sides since then. I'm with young Andrew back then, all for using the correct word even at the risk of the great unwashed masses of ignorami not getting it; let them get some fucking Allgemeinbildung. You seem to have joined your old teacher, prissily proscribing a perfectly correct usage on the grounds that said masses of ignorami may find it "obsolete". Which end of that Bierce quotation do you feel you are on? -- Christian R. Conrad Same old username (as above), but now on iki.fi (Yeah, yeah, it redirects to the same old GMail... But just in case I ever want to change.)

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