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Date: | Thu, 10 Feb 2000 15:04:43 -0500 |
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Actually, I meant by physical distance, since mom's within an hour's drive,
one brother is at least a day's drive and the other is 3 hard days drive
away. Although, I can see I used a poor example.
- Pam
------------ Previous Message from Ralph Walter <[log in to unmask]> on
02/10/2000 12:42:35 PM ----------
In a message dated 2/8/2000 4:55:14 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[log in to unmask] writes:
<< Here's a try at a sentence: I have a propinquity to me mother, but not
to
my brothers. >>
Dear Popeye (or Andy Capp),
That works for the biological relationship sense, but was I was trying to
figure out was how to use "propinquity" to connote physical proximity.
I.e.,
is something "in propinquity?" One doesn't say that a thing is
propinquitous, although "propinquitous" seems more useful than
"propinquity."
What say our Sharpshooting Shaman the Pirate and others considered the
literary elite among Pinheads?
Ralph
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