<div dir="ltr"><font size="4">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.</font><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">When I come out of cryonic suspension, this will be one of my first questions for the human and robot attendants!</font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4"><a href="https://www.grammarly.com/blog/comprise-vs-compose/">https://www.grammarly.com/blog/comprise-vs-compose/</a><br></font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">John ; )</font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 5:06 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">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</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 6:50 PM Anton Sherwood via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 2021-9-16 07:51, BillK via extropy-chat wrote:<br>
>>From Merriam-Webster -------<br>
> <br>
> Even if you despise comprised of and have made it your life's work to<br>
> expunge it from the writing of others, chances are very good that you<br>
> never approached the level of dedication exhibited by the Wikipedia<br>
> editor who, over a period of years, deleted tens of thousands of uses<br>
> of comprised of from that website (in addition to writing a 5,000 word<br>
> explanatory article).<br>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Giraffedata/comprised_of" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Giraffedata/comprised_of</a><br>
<br>
I am sometimes tempted to go on similar Wiki-jihad against "the fact <br>
that", due to the fact that a sentence comprising this phrase can <br>
usually be made shorter and clearer; "refer to", when it replaces "be" <br>
or "describe"; and "in terms of", which (outside a hard science context) <br>
seems to mean the writer can't be bothered in terms of finding a more <br>
specific preposition in terms of the intended meaning.<br>
<br>
-- <br>
*\\* Anton Sherwood *\\* <a href="http://www.bendwavy.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">www.bendwavy.org</a><br>
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