[Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
It is not that I am not able to look up words in a dictionary.. When an
excess of dificult word is used, the message is lost.
Thanks,
      GerardM

2009/3/4 quiddity <pandiculation at gmail.com>

> http://www.onelook.com/?w=encomium "a formal expression of praise"
> http://www.onelook.com/?w=hagiography "a biography that idealizes or
> idolizes the person (especially a person who is a saint)"
> http://www.onelook.com/?w=saccharine "overly sweet"
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 4:19 AM, Gerard Meijssen
> <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hoi,
> > What is:
> > * encomium
> > * hagiographical
> > * saccharine sentiment
> >
> > PS You lost me.
> > Thanks,
> >      GerardM
> >
> > 2009/3/3 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro at gmail.com>
> >
> >>
> >> While I find it impossible to disagree with your characterization
> >> of the current situation in any depth, and for sentimental reasons
> >> don't wish to engage teh view expressed by Jimmy Wales above
> >> your reply; I am bound to note that this state of affairs does
> >> present a certain historical irony, in that "Criticism and controversy"
> >> sections did not originate as a way of "starting" a biasing against
> >> a person whom the article was about, but as a way of keeping the
> >> main body of the biographical wholly hagiographical, and all the
> >> seamy sides being able to be rebutted in the "controversy" section,
> >> with none of the encomiums and even the worst saccharine
> >> sentiments in the hagiographical portion challenged at all
> >> by even the gentlest critical glance. "Yes, we won't be removing
> >> that sourced information, just moving it out of the way of the main
> >> flow of our sweet article about this wonderful person."
>
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