forcing things to do things they don't want to do
Sandra Dodd
What an irritating choice of words:
Drought forces Lake Superior to set record for low water
This was on the Yahoo.com main page, which I usually avoid but I'm getting to mail through the internet instead of my happy mail program.
Anyway...
A drought shouldn't be personified as an evil thing that "forces" a lake (which shouldn't be personified" into setting a record it didn't even want to set. Poor lake. Mean drought!
Even professional writers can write things that say what doesn't make sense and shouldn't be said, but they shouldn't do it on this list.
Kelli Traaseth is taking me and Holly (and some or all of her kids) to Duluth later this week and I'll see whether Lake Superior seems distraught about having been forced to set a record.
Sandra
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Drought forces Lake Superior to set record for low water
This was on the Yahoo.com main page, which I usually avoid but I'm getting to mail through the internet instead of my happy mail program.
Anyway...
A drought shouldn't be personified as an evil thing that "forces" a lake (which shouldn't be personified" into setting a record it didn't even want to set. Poor lake. Mean drought!
Even professional writers can write things that say what doesn't make sense and shouldn't be said, but they shouldn't do it on this list.
Kelli Traaseth is taking me and Holly (and some or all of her kids) to Duluth later this week and I'll see whether Lake Superior seems distraught about having been forced to set a record.
Sandra
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Meredith
--- In [email protected], Sandra Dodd <Sandra@...> wrote:
even want to set. Poor lake. Mean drought!
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I sometimes watch the program "The Universe" and was appalled at the
segment on the "life cycle" of stars. There was a loooooong description
on the subject of gravity and nuclear fusion as opposing forces within
the star that "cast" gravity as some kind of evil villain, actively
trying to crush the life out of poor stars - and the heroic stars as
clever and resourceful... Yikes.
---Meredith (Mo 6, Ray 14)
>> Anyway...lake (which shouldn't be personified" into setting a record it didn't
> A drought shouldn't be personified as an evil thing that "forces" a
even want to set. Poor lake. Mean drought!
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I sometimes watch the program "The Universe" and was appalled at the
segment on the "life cycle" of stars. There was a loooooong description
on the subject of gravity and nuclear fusion as opposing forces within
the star that "cast" gravity as some kind of evil villain, actively
trying to crush the life out of poor stars - and the heroic stars as
clever and resourceful... Yikes.
---Meredith (Mo 6, Ray 14)