RE: "Gage"

Subject: RE: "Gage"
From: "Pinkham, Jim" <Jim -dot- Pinkham -at- voith -dot- com>
To: "Lauren" <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net>, "Downing, David" <DavidDowning -at- users -dot- com>, "Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>, <quills -at- airmail -dot- net>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:48:01 -0600

To lend? Or not to lend? That is the question. Yes, there's process
involved. But that doesn't call for twisting a noun into a verb. I
**decided** not to lend. You may "decision" all you wish, if you're
really convinced that's a viable verb, but I think that it is not. :)

-----Original Message-----
From: Lauren [mailto:lauren -at- writeco -dot- net]
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 12:20 PM
To: Pinkham, Jim; 'Downing, David'; 'Combs, Richard';
quills -at- airmail -dot- net; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: RE: "Gage"

> From: Pinkham, Jim

> Just to play the devil's advocate: Why can't one decide a loan? How is

> that different from deciding a boxing match or a court case,
> especially the latter? The judge decides, for instance, whether to
> rule in favor of the plaintiff. But if we say that she decided the
> case, the meaning is clear.

Because a loan does not have two sides, it is "yes" or "no" and not
"left"
or "right," for example. Either there is a loan or there is not a loan.
A case on the other hand, exists, but which way it goes requires a
decision.
If the case is dismissed, then it is not decided. So there is a
decision to hear a case (yes or no) and then the case is decided (left
or right).

Lauren


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