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Edna

What better name for one who'd analyze and scrutinize the sources of logomachy, a philosopher who filters truth from lies, our building blocks, the seat of etiology. A thinker's thinker, one who ponders well the implications of a life-long gleaning, 'composed of' and 'comprises,' just a single cell in her journey to examine every meaning. Though new expressions find their way to dictionaries, they bastardize, dilute the power of language, 'snuck' instead of 'sneaked,' no real propensities to offer something better, (tawdry verbiage!) To communicate with skill, singular fluency takes 'savoir faire,' a knack for etymology!

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Date: 1/30/2016 7:04:00 AM
Wordy yet brilliantly crafted
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Keith Bickerstaffe
Date: 1/30/2016 8:50:00 AM
Thanks so much! Best wishes, Keith
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Keith Bickerstaffe
Date: 1/30/2016 8:48:00 AM
Thanks so much! Best wishes, Keith
Date: 1/29/2016 3:10:00 PM
Yeah... kinda reads like I swallowed a dictionary huh? Thanks for your response... much appreciated. Keith
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Date: 1/29/2016 2:46:00 PM
What an educated little poem, Keith and with such flair....Sharon : )
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