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Originally posted by Nevadaref
I believe Dan is saying that he knows of men's instructors who tell the officials to call it this way. I don't.
And Juulie, you have used the word edification twice recently, and I must admit I had to look it up because knowing the meaning of edifice I was puzzled by the context in which you used it. It does seem funny that edification doesn't mean something like to make into a large building. Maybe the words are connected because one's self is being built up by the instructor.
Your diction is outstanding! If you ever write a book, I'll buy it.
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It comes from being raised in a long line of Quakers, who firmly believed in education for women, and in my family lived it out in the formal study of English language and literature. My grandmother and I. M. Shirley Wright took classes together, although Ms. Wright was not a Quaker.
Edification is a word used a lot in Quaker circles, and it does indeed mean something along the lines of "being built up". However, I would say it is the words and concepts themselves that are the building elements, not the instructor. If Dan expounds his principles, and if they are sound teachings, it is the concepts themselves, not Dan, by which we are edified. In other words, it isn't Dan that's the point, it's the ideas. Which is why I used that particular word -- I wanted to see what concepts he was trying to propound, not his own personal opinion, on which I need no clarification!
PS I do, in fact, have two books in the hopper, and I'm holding you to your commitment, if and when they are ever published.
[Edited by rainmaker on Nov 1st, 2003 at 01:35 PM]