On Mar 21, 2014, at 9:28 PM, Tom Walker <[email protected]> wrote:
> Economic progress was not my choice of words. Note that I put the word > "progress" in [ironic] quotation marks. I don't, however, eschew small-p > progress as a synonym for "better than this," as distinct from the triumphal > capital-p March of Progress. But you already knew that. > ========== Sorry; I misread your second sentence as implying that the term could still be meaningful if it was re-purposed. Would progress occur if we had a much more humble family of meanings conveyed by the term progress? It seems to be a term lots of people would be loathe to consign to the dustbin. E. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
