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Edna

...for a good friend What better name for one who'd analyze and scrutinize the secrets 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, but a single cell in her journey to examine every meaning. Some new expressions find their way to dictionaries, bastardize, dilute the power of language, snuck instead of sneaked, no real propensities to offer something better, (tawdry verbiage!) She communicates with skill, singular fluency, with savoir fair, a flair for etymology!

Copyright © | Year Posted 2012




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Date: 5/14/2012 9:23:00 PM
Had to look up "etiology" Keith then it flowed. What a clever verse about how language is diminished with some of the new words being standardized. It would be well to uphold the standards that make our language so expressive and beautiful. I have a love affair with words! :) Soup mail
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