03-20-2026, 05:03 AM
@alonso ramoran - Thanks (sincerely!) for moderating the approval-high I got from @milo's most recent critique 
. I will try to make improvements based on your comments. This is the virtue of having many critics: triangulation. And not getting self-satisfied.
Concerning "not found by ... alphabet," my (seldom successful) last resort for finding a lost word is to run through the alphabet. That is, having some idea of the letter with which the word begins, start with it and hook on a, b, etc. (try vowels first if it starts with a consonant). This can take a while for (one example) oxalic acid. And there are traps: searching for "ambiguous" I get deflected by "actuarial" and "ambivalent." It's a short line, surely I can make this clearer...
And thanks again to @milo. Yes, you've deduced the method for almost every change, and some of the interim steps. Cheers!
. I will try to make improvements based on your comments. This is the virtue of having many critics: triangulation. And not getting self-satisfied.Concerning "not found by ... alphabet," my (seldom successful) last resort for finding a lost word is to run through the alphabet. That is, having some idea of the letter with which the word begins, start with it and hook on a, b, etc. (try vowels first if it starts with a consonant). This can take a while for (one example) oxalic acid. And there are traps: searching for "ambiguous" I get deflected by "actuarial" and "ambivalent." It's a short line, surely I can make this clearer...
And thanks again to @milo. Yes, you've deduced the method for almost every change, and some of the interim steps. Cheers!
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