Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/03

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Subject: Re: [Leica] No average Joe
From: Mark Rabiner <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 10:22:04 -0800
References: <3c.2feb368.2734571f@aol.com>

Krechtz@aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 11/2/00 8:03:11 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> michaeljohnston@ameritech.net writes:
> 
> << Except you should
>  avoid the term "juxtaposition," as it's in heavy rotation in the Critics'
>  Artspeak Syntax Generator (CASG) computer program, in use at many art
>  schools. >>
> 
> Ouch!  I just looked up the "j-word" in Roget's Thesaurus.  It isn't there.
> Oh, sure - I could always say "adjacentness", but that sounds a bit affected.
>  I am afraid that my career as a critic is over before it has even begun...
> 
> Joe Sobel

jux0ta0pose (jîk1stõ-pÅz2) tr.v. jux0ta0posed, jux0ta0pos0ing, jux0ta0pos0es.
To place side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.

mark rabiner

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