--- Jose Marquez <jhereg69 at earthlink.net> wrote: > And something I've noticed when I'm writing and I'm > unsure of how a phrase should be used: the more I play it back and forth > in my head (and even aloud), the less it makes sense; it's like the > phrase (or word!) loses its meaning by my replaying it like that. When I was a linguistics graduate student at UC Berkeley, we called this state being "scanted out", the type case being trying to work out the subtleties of usage of the word "scant". -- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoepist, and Philological Busybody a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel [This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.] __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - now with 250MB free storage. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250