Re: CHAT: JRRT
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, March 10, 2004, 20:04 |
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Scriptum est:
> So perhaps instead we should assume that
> the conlanger default is intelligent + dilatory + unmethodical
> & instead enquire whether anybody isn't dilatory + unmethodical.
> Herman Miller strikes me as unusually methodical & undilatory,
> for instance. Certainly not dilatory, at any rate. (NB Dilatory
> != propensity to inflate!)>>
>
This definition of _dilatory_ bothered me immediately, since I too have been
accused of being so............ Turns out there is a second, related sense
of dilate: "to delay, to defer", adj. dilatory 'tending to delay, defer'
which I think fits most of us better than "tending to inflate"......:-))))
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