Re: Sacred tangent (was Re: just checking...)
Johne Cook <[email protected]>
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I've thought about this. I try to put myself in the other guy's shoes. I first thought of 'venerable' but it also contains a religious vibe. I checked-down to 'revered' but discarded that for the same reason. I finally wound up with 'greatly esteemed' (where the focus is horizontal, esteem coming from men, rather the vertical, blessed by God). Johne Cook | http://raygunrevival.com | http://authorculture.blogspot.com | On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Peter T. Chattaway < petert-LOVM4QxV+tDq6eQxt3vRmLDks+cytr/[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 14 Jan 2011, Mike Findlay wrote: > >> Would anybody, objecting to the use of sacred, had a problem if she had >> said "revered" instead? >> > > It wouldn't have been *as* bad, but it still wouldn't have been the best > word to use, or even in the top ten. > -- > dadl-ot mailing list > http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot > -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot