> Again, I did not say that the Parachute stuff couldn't be beautiful, I was
> just surprised that John used "beautiful" as a way of describing it. I
> would have never thought of describing it that way, that's all.
This is what I was getting at! You reckon using beautiful in this
context is unusual, my query was why should this be? Why would beautiful
be a puzzling word to use here?
>
> It is just that by stretching too much the meaning of words (assuming words are still used for communication, and communication with a willingful person,not a die hard specialist part of a group which can count itself on the ten fingers of their hand :-),
not sure what you are trying to tell me here...
> you might reach a point where they become useless, and I do not see
>that as a good thing (always in my boring view of seeing words as a way >to communicate with a willingful, but not expert, audience).
My point was just that in singling out beautiful as an unusual word to
describe something like free improv, you are implying that conventional
adjectives do not apply, that perhaps another set of words may be more
appropriate. I was just suggesting that this need not be the case.
>
> Personally, I still believe in the use of words and try to use them with
> moderation and as close as I can to their general accepted meaning.
>
As do we all.
Scott Russell.
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