Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:26:34 +0000
From: arborico@xxxxxxxxxxx.com
Subject: Re: positivsm
To: uktc@xxxxxx.tree-care.info
Couldn't agree more, a fresh view is often all it takes. Think I might need
that guide to plain English and the Blue Book of grammar I've heard about.
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From: antony croft <hamadryad@xxxxxxxx.co.uk>
To: UK Tree Care <uktc@xxxxxx.tree-care.info>
Sent: Wednesday, 21 December 2011, 18:39
Subject: RE: positivsm
Argh, point taken!
I was reading this in my new book, the evolving language and regional
differences, one of five oxfords that i bought after being told i should
read the oxford guide to plain english! i also bought effective writing,
grammar and punctuation etc etc, with any luck i may even avoid any petty
issues in the near future!
I should have stayed in school rather than fishing or working me thinks!
nah! i had good times on that river, learning from nature!
I would say this "difference" attitude is not just confined to language
grammar and terminology, it seems to permeate even the science, one saying
the other science is rubbish, a claiming the superior science over another.
when often the truth is found by the man in the middle who embraces both
sides and comes up with something betwixt the two views.
The joining of several view points in arboriculture a theme i shall discuss
more at a more formal occasion!
tony
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:11:28 +0000
From: arborico@xxxxxxxxxxx.com
Subject: Re: positivsm
To: uktc@xxxxxx.tree-care.info
Hi Tony,
Always been partial to a bit of Tolstoy!
Welll.... As no one else has taken the bait! Proposed as a bit of fun. It
all depends on your accepted source and point of view. If you take the
OED then it's mycorrhizae, end of, now and forever, amen. To paraphrase
another! However, the OED necessarily lags behind current usage. Most, if
not all erudite researchers in the UK use the term mycorrhizas. Which is
correct? We could debate it from now until whenever and still not resolve
the issue. The important thing is, by the time we finished we would both
understand where the other was coming from. Does it really matter that
much which term is employed when we both know we are talking about the
same thing?
Dom
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