Re: XYWRITE digest 2993

["Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx]

J R FOX wrote:
> XySearch is a wonderful resource
> to have, though not the complete and perfect solution
> every time.

That's one reason why I store all (well, almost all; there have
been a few posts I've edited so as not to shock the polite eyes
of my executors one day) list posts to a set of directories (one
for each year) on my hard drive. Then I can search (SE *.*
/term/Helpkey) for the any term I need (and not just ones that
got into the subject or the first few lines of the body) at my
leisure, and not online.

And Marge wrote:
> I think this XyWrite forum may represent the highest average
IQ > of any group (non-family) I've ever identified with
I'd incline to agree with that. The caliber of the many other
editors and writers here is much greater than that of a forum
supposedly for editorial professionals (which shall in charity be
nameless) that I once--very briefly--frequented. To paraphrase
one Johan Wessel, "Call ye them editors? They know no tongue but
English, and barely that." (Originally said--regrettably--of
doctors, Aquinas, and Latin; quoted in C. S. Lewis, English
Literature in the 16th Century, Excluding Drama, OUP, p. 30.)
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Patricia M. Godfrey
PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx