07-01-2012, 04:12 PM
"Dale, you know I hate to argue Wink... but to your dregs point, personally I often refer to anything left over as "dregs". I like the connotations the word carries, whereas "end" is very neutral. For modality, I'd take dregs as the stronger word. This may be due to a small cultural shift of usage, since "dregs of society" is not a particularly common term where I'm from (I don't know about penguin of course). Anyway, just thought I'd weigh in -- proving once again that the choice of a single word is as important as anything else in poetry. "
Evidently you guys use it more often in that way. In the US, it is never used like that as far as I am aware, in fact I had to look it up to see that was a valid usage as I have never heard it used that way before. However I try and support colloquialisms whenever I can, so I concede the point as it doesn't hurt anyone to learn new usages
Dale
Evidently you guys use it more often in that way. In the US, it is never used like that as far as I am aware, in fact I had to look it up to see that was a valid usage as I have never heard it used that way before. However I try and support colloquialisms whenever I can, so I concede the point as it doesn't hurt anyone to learn new usages
Dale
How long after picking up the brush, the first masterpiece?
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.