Housekeeping or PERI TOU ANAGNWNAI TA ANAGEGNWMENA
Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Thu, 19 Jun 1997 15:05:46 -0400
As one who has been separated from direct contact with the list for
over a week, partly owing to misbehavior on the part of majordomo (and
if Clayton can send the captain to discipline the major, I wish him the
very best!) and owing also to <italic>morte de modem</italic>, I found
myself last night and today reading a vast number of posts to this
list. One thing that made this task a lot more time-consuming than it
might have been is that some posters (new list-members, perhaps?) have
not taken pains to erase those parts of previous correspondence that
are unrelated to the point they are making in their own post. One
finds, then, that one is re-reading again and again what one has
already read. Of course, one can just scroll on down through all that
excess verbiage, but this kind of oversight can really be annoying to
those who pay more dearly for what clogs their electronic mailboxes. So
could we trim away those parts of the messages we're responding to that
don't have an important bearing on understanding the poster's point?
And hopefully I'll have something of more substance to say hereafter. I
WILL add that I think James Vellenga is right in bringing to bear my
note of a month ago that a substantive participle in Greek really OUGHT
to have an article to make clear that it is substantive rather than
circumstantial.
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics/Washington University
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