Re: Prepositions
From: | Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...> |
Date: | Sunday, September 30, 2001, 21:40 |
Quoting David Peterson <DigitalScream@...>:
> No one's listed "qua" yet. ;)
Ah, yes! That's another one that can be added to the
"marginal" category, in that you see it somewhat
frequently in intellectual and scholarly journals,
but nowhere else.
"Vis-a-vis" could also probably be added, since it's
really one unit in English, unlike "with respect to".
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Thomas Wier <trwier@...>
"If a man demands justice, not merely as an abstract concept,
but in setting up the life of a society, and if he holds, further,
that within that society (however defined) all men have equal rights,
then the odds are that his views, sooner rather than later, are going
to set something or someone on fire." Peter Green, in _From Alexander
to Actium_, on Spartan king Cleomenes III