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[John Grigg]

I suspect "comprise" may actually become a synonym for "compose" within a
century or two. The word just feels right to me, to be used in such a way.
I now realize it is not currently a correct usage, but in time it may be. I
have done my part.

When I come out of cryonic suspension, this will be one of my first
questions for the human and robot attendants!

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/comprise-vs-compose/

John  ;  )




On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 5:06 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Autofill is a good tool for dealing with cliches.  When it anticipates and
> autofills a cliche for me I change it to something else.  bill w
>
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 6:50 PM Anton Sherwood via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> On 2021-9-16 07:51, BillK via extropy-chat wrote:
>> >>From Merriam-Webster -------
>> >
>> > Even if you despise comprised of and have made it your life's work to
>> > expunge it from the writing of others, chances are very good that you
>> > never approached the level of dedication exhibited by the Wikipedia
>> > editor who, over a period of years, deleted tens of thousands of uses
>> > of comprised of from that website (in addition to writing a 5,000 word
>> > explanatory article).
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Giraffedata/comprised_of
>>
>> I am sometimes tempted to go on similar Wiki-jihad against "the fact
>> that", due to the fact that a sentence comprising this phrase can
>> usually be made shorter and clearer; "refer to", when it replaces "be"
>> or "describe"; and "in terms of", which (outside a hard science context)
>> seems to mean the writer can't be bothered in terms of finding a more
>> specific preposition in terms of the intended meaning.
>>
>> --
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