MEAN

I guess the English language has changed since 1946 when this thesaurus was published, or I’m really stupid. I never heard of this meaning for the word mean (as a verb: average; as a noun: medium, happy medium, average, balance, normal). But then I looked in The Synonym Finder, and there’s happy medium in there too!

And here I thought if you weren’t nice, you were mean. Or what I mean to say is if you’re not nice, you’re kind of a bully. Or they don’t have any means to go by in order to change.

food for thought: I don’t know why people are mean. I’m not sure what they have to gain by being so. But did you know that mean is a happy medium?

COPY

I had to get out my copy of The Synonym Finder book (1978) by J.I. Rodale Rodale Press, Inc.,

 because as I was reading this old thesaurus, and in the different meanings for copy there was: revise, revision, rewrite, rewriting, rescript and I was thinking because that had to do with printing.

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In The Synonym Finder for copy: imitation, reproduction, replica, ectype, transcript, apograph, replication, duplication; duplicate, carbon, facsimile, carbon copy… reproduce, duplicate, replicate, transcribe, rewrite, plagiarize.

  food for thought: Is there anyone you want to copy?