RE: pushpins

[Tom Murrell <trmurrell -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

--- Guy McDonald <gmcdonald -at- mcdts -dot- com> wrote:
> 
> Perhaps you folks can help me with a long wondered about word?
> 
> Is it "anal retentive"
> 
> -or-
> 
> "anal-rententive"

Were I more competent or less arrogant or even more simian, I might
think so. But as I am none of those things, according to an
authoritative source, I'm of the opinion that it is part of a writer's
job to make determinations about such things. As has been said of
poets, but applies equally to ALL writers, "For a poet, there IS NO
choice of words."

The choices matter for the shades of meaning they convey.

Arrogantly Yours,

=====
Tom Murrell
"...incompetent, arrogant, semi-simian..." but with aspirations of becoming fully simian in the future.
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