Re: USAGE: 'born'

On Thu, 10 May 2001 Dan Sulani wrote:
>     The part of the article I quoted was discussing the
> unrestrained growth of Phoenix, Arizona. I don't think
> that the author was thinking about the city's beauty.
> To fill in the previous sentence and a half:
>
> "Phonix is a boomtown where nearly a quarter
> of the children live in poverty.
>     If there's any one thing that distinguishes Phoenix,
> it's that the city is still becoming. There may be arguments
> as to what it's becoming..."
Thanks for the context.  Now "... the city is still becoming"
makes perfect sense to me -- as a pun!  In that context,
"still" means "nonetheless" (so the author is saying that,
despite being a boomtown where nearly a quarter of the
 children live in poverty, Phoenix is nonetheless attractive).
 -- Tommie