Hi, Bill.

BG> Bob, at 10:41 on Jun 04 1995, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

BG> BG> anything by Burroughs, Verne, or H G Wells is eminently
BG> BG> readable, as they all had wonderfully prosaic styles.
BG> BL>                                       ^^^^^^^
BG> BL> ROFL!!! Either you are being very sly, or you need to look up the
BG> BL> meaning of "prosaic".

BG> I was actually quite serious, and was just about to tell you to go and fuck
BG> yourself, but decided to look it up just in case.  And bugger me, it has an
BG> alternative meaning...

BG> Prosaic adj. 1. commonplace or dull, matter-of-fact or unimaginative.
BG>              2. having the character or spirit of prose as opposed to
BG>                 poetry, as verse or writing.

That's not actually 2 meanings, it's 2 interpretations of one meaning -
unimaginative (etc) like prose, cf poetry. (Although I've seen some
pretty unimaginative poetry :-))

BG> In case you wondered, in its original context, mine is definition #2.

In its original context you meant to use the word "prose", not
"prosaic".

Regards, FIM.

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