The look is good – highly suitable and for the most part legible. It might be a good idea to tweak the color a bit. This grey for the comments feels a little pale, eg. But overall a good choice. Sail on, O ship of state (an anagram for “taste” – but what the heck is one to do with that…?)
The use of closure goes back quite a long way in land surveying, but I don’t know how far. In that context it refers to the gap between the calculated points of beginning and ending on a land boundary survey. They are supposed to be exactly the same point, but never were until electronic instrumentation and GPS came into use.
I wonder about unique. It used to be absolute; like pregnant, you either were or you weren’t. Now we see almost unique, nearly unique, etc. Whatever happened to rare? It seems to become rarer all the time. In time its use may become unique.
Good point! Let me think about that one. Most people have never been happy with the rather convoluted comparatives for ostensibly absolute terms (“more nearly perfect,” etc.), and such comparatives seem to remain the practice of pedants. I hadn’t noticed that “rare” is getting rarer (except in restaurants, where “rare” is actually illegal in some places), but maybe you’re on to something.
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lizholl
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The look is good – highly suitable and for the most part legible. It might be a good idea to tweak the color a bit. This grey for the comments feels a little pale, eg. But overall a good choice. Sail on, O ship of state (an anagram for “taste” – but what the heck is one to do with that…?)
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Eve Gregory
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The use of closure goes back quite a long way in land surveying, but I don’t know how far. In that context it refers to the gap between the calculated points of beginning and ending on a land boundary survey. They are supposed to be exactly the same point, but never were until electronic instrumentation and GPS came into use.
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Eve Gregory
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I wonder about unique. It used to be absolute; like pregnant, you either were or you weren’t. Now we see almost unique, nearly unique, etc. Whatever happened to rare? It seems to become rarer all the time. In time its use may become unique.
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lexmaniac
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Good point! Let me think about that one. Most people have never been happy with the rather convoluted comparatives for ostensibly absolute terms (“more nearly perfect,” etc.), and such comparatives seem to remain the practice of pedants. I hadn’t noticed that “rare” is getting rarer (except in restaurants, where “rare” is actually illegal in some places), but maybe you’re on to something.