RE: [Texascavers] ribbing and critiquing

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 06:34:55 -0800 (PST)

He may have meant "wotanly"... Wotan = Odin...

 

T.


-----Original Message-----
From: Louise Power
Sent: Jan 13, 2009 7:16 PM
To: Gill Ediger , Texas Cavers
Subject: RE: [Texascavers] ribbing and critiquing

Now Gill, I'm sure you wouldn't want to be left out of the spelling corrections. To wit:
 
You said:
 
  "It's long been my practice to avoid ribbing or critiquing folks wontanly ..."
 
wan·ton (wntn)

adj.
1. Immoral or unchaste; lewd.
2.
a. Gratuitously cruel; merciless.
b. Marked by unprovoked, gratuitous maliciousness; capricious and unjust: wanton destruction.
3. Unrestrainedly excessive: wanton extravagance; wanton depletion of oil reserves.
4. Luxuriant; overabundant: wanton tresses.
5. Frolicsome; playful.
6. Undisciplined; spoiled.
7. Obsolete Rebellious; refractory.
 
"...tenatious residue of his fiscal prostitution..."
 
Did you mean tenacious?
 
Definition:  
  1. [adj]  sticking together; "two coherent sheets"; "tenacious burrs"
  2. [adj]  (of memory) having greater than average range; "a long memory especially for insults"; "a tenacious memory"
  3. [adj]  stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion"
 
Once a proofreader, always a proofreader!
 
Kindly, Louise

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