I'm always glad to hear Rick undertaking fulmination.
> Perhaps this is just a side effect of one of my pet peeves, but I
> am very pleased that Inkshed 14 will have an ORIENTING session
> instead of the usual ORIENTATION session. (All else being equal,
> which of course it almost never is, I prefer that words signifying
> actions not end in -ATION. Tho that does peeve me less than when
> they go through the noun form and return as verbs with an extra
> syllable or two (e.g., ORIENT-->ORIENTATION-->ORIENTATE). There
> is, somewhere in rhetoric, a Greek name for this particular scheme,
> but I can't bring it to mind at the moment.)
I wonder if this means that we can expect to find him in attendation?
Possibly having brought to remembrance the Greek name for this, um,
schematization?
-- Russ
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