Judy Evans writes: "What's sloppy about my using "power" in two different ways, signalling the difference by "qua"?" The sloppiness lies in your requiring the single word 'power' to do double duty. This equivocation allows you to indulge in flopping around as you do, so my asking for better is, perhaps, unkind. Judy continues: "My suggestion was that you stop yammering on at people whose use of 'power' you dislike." Oh my. Yes, please, by all means lets not think about these things, the issues are after all not of meaning and sense but likes and dislikes, and just embrace the nonsense de jour. Carry on Judy. Sincerely, Phil Enns Toronto, ON ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html