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To: Grainne who wrote (141)	7/14/1998 11:53:00 AM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) of 174

Let's see now. No, this is not the Grammar thread. At the same time, I reserve and exercise the privilege to make my grammatical preferences known here. I think "parenting" is easily replaced with the correct and marginally less compact "parenthood". When you really need to distinguish the act from the state of being, "being a parent" is universal if arguably verbose. It's an aesthetic call on my part. "Parenting", "windowing" etc. grate on my nerves, perhaps because these forma have evolved in some of the intellectually laziest and most corrupt circles in our present society. Every time I hear such a form, I visualize a Human Resources weasel or some self-referent social/political sciences mandarin. (The one that really raises my hackles is when folks try to turn "incentive" into a verb and use the bastard "incent". Arrgh. Can you tell I'm - incensed?) But hey, that's I. (sic) I also advocate simplicity of structure - so long as it is either correct or is a big improvement over an exixting Indo-Germanic atavism. Although - often I will employ the nominally correct atavism because it is poetic and often more evocative than the spare replacement - which often smacks of verbal Bauhaus. Thread management. I don't want to wear the mantle of Thread Manager. I want as much freedom as is reasonable to set the tone hereabouts. I didn't call you on writing "parenting". My only complaint was the apparent duplicity of using the form while disguising parenthetic goads as apologies. There is something of a challenge there - sorta like "if he says anything now, he looks like a pedant". I didn't want to leave that uncalled. But enough about taht, if it's OK. My primary interest here is to keep the thread alive. This is proving tough. There has been attrition among the "old crew" of cybernetic merrymakers. I'm sure there are new web sprites out there ready to share a bon mot or tentative opinion about our collective and individual situation. We have built it; let them come.

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