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Monday, August 27, 2007

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Belt Belt Belt of Verbs

T oday is Start-of-Semester Day in Syracuse (even if I don't teach until tomorrow). How better to celebrate the occasion than by adding a verb to the belt of verbs (and thereby contributing to the Greater Verbiage)?

He'd discourse on the animals' diets, reproduction, life spans, their interesting and unusual characteristics. (48)

A rare sighting of discourse as verb. Tracy Kidder wrote this about Paul Farmer in Mountains Beyond Mountains (a book which I will think of as Verbs Beyond Verbs from this point forward).

Belt of VerbsPosted by dmueller at August 27, 2007 7:05 PM to Belt of Verbs

"The promiscuous collection and tabulation of data have given way to a process of assigning possible meanings, merely supposed real entities, to mathematical terms, working out the logical results, and then staging certain crucial experiments to check the hypothesis against the actual, empirical results" (20). Susanne Langer, Philosophy In a New Key.