<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 4:16 AM Anton Sherwood via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">You mean "composed".<br>
«comprise» and «compose» are roughly reciprocals, not synonyms.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Let's not be grammar nazis. We all knew what John meant.</div><div><br></div><div><i><b>Comprised of</b> is an expression in English that means "composed of" or "constituted by". The Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary, Collins English Dictionary and the Oxford Dictionaries regard the form comprised of as standard English usage.<br></i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprised_of">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprised_of</a></div><div><br></div><div>-Dave</div></div></div>