Re: Re: postmodernism?

[Rob Schaap <bantam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

G'day Doug,

> >polycentric (although he wrote it in English)
>
> poly = a prefix meaning many
>
> therefore:
>
> polycentric = having many centers
> polyamory = having many lovers
> polymorphous = exhibiting many types or stages
> polygon = having many sides
> Poly Styrene = a punk singer from the late 70s

Yeah, but:

centre = middle point - of which one entity may have a maximum of but one.

So I prefer, as EPT did, poor frustrated old General Maitland's rendering ('no
real bottom') or Cobbet's ('They can find no agitators.  It is a movement of
the people's own').  I'm not saying these observations apply to Al Qua'ida
itself, although it may apply to the social motion of which it is now part,
but I am saying 'polycentric' is a shitty word - ugly, useless and
nonsensical.

Was Poly Styrene any good?  Never heard of him/her out here!

Cheers,
Rob.