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I thought "chronicle" [<i>v.t.</i>] was fairly established. The OED traces the usage back to 1440! <div><br></div><div>By the by, nice to see everyone speaking up for good usage. Even where we disagree, this is a vital discussion, in my view.</div><div><br></div><div>MW Morse</div><div>Trent University</div><div>Peterborough, Oshawa<br><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 21:28:07 +0200<br>From: nicolas.meeus@paris-sorbonne.fr<br>To: smt-talk@lists.societymusictheory.org<br>Subject: Re: [Smt-talk] One thought on Language Use<br><br>
<font face="Calibri">My brother recently drew my attention to the
following sentence by Pootwattle:</font><br>
<blockquote><font face="Georgia">The Virtual Academic(TM), says:<br>
The writing of narrative qua narrative chronicles the
(re)invention of process.</font><br>
[<font face="Georgia">Smedley, the Virtual Critic(TM), responds:
Pootwattle's suggestive observation concerning the relationship
between the writing of narrative qua narrative and the
(re)invention of process can never supplant the work of the
Frankfurt school.]</font></blockquote>
Wuddyathink of "to chronicle"?<br>
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For more: <font face="Georgia"> <a href="http://writing-program.uchicago.edu/toys/randomsentence/index.htm" target="_blank">http://writing-program.uchicago.edu/toys/randomsentence/index.htm</a></font><br>
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Yours,<br>
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Nicolas Meeùs<br>
Université Paris-Sorbonne<br>
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<div class="ecxmoz-cite-prefix">Le 11/09/2012 16:39, Dmitri Tymoczko a
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<pre>On Sep 7, 2012, at 10:38 AM, art samplaski wrote:
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<pre>"Transition" is a NOUN, ladies and gentlemen.
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<pre>I have two things to say about this, one frivolous and one serious.
1. (Frivolous) For those who are interested in issues of prescriptivism and language change, I heartily recommend the blog "Language Log," run by my friend Mark Liberman (with the help of many very smart contributors). Mark recently wrote the latest in a long series of posts on "verbing." (The name originates with Calvin's memorable remark to Hobbes: "verbing weirds language").
<a class="ecxmoz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4161" target="_blank">http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4161</a>
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