Re: to unprepare

From: Horace LaBadie (hwlabadiejr_at_nospam.highstream.net)
Date: 03/17/05 

Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 07:39:20 -0500

In article
<hwlabadiejr-A1B87D.07364117032005@corp-radius.supernews.com>,
 Horace LaBadie <hwlabadiejr@nospam.highstream.net> wrote:

> In article <d1bp1a$4dg$00$1@news.t-online.com>,
> "Ekkehard Dengler" <ED-RS@t-online.de> wrote:
>
> > "Ron Hardin" <rhhardin@mindspring.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> > news:42385DF4.4530@mindspring.com...
> >
> > > What's wrong with the original is partly that you can trace out what
> > happened.
> > >
> > > The intention :
> > >
> > > The principals are unprepared for their jobs.
> > > The principals are not prepared for their jobs by education colleges.
> > >
> > > These two were coalesced into :
> > >
> > > The principals are unprepared for their jobs by education colleges.
> > >
> > > That though is made impossible by the emergent meaning of ``to
> > unprepare,''
> > > whether it exists beforehand or not, of taking something already prepared
> > and making
> > > it unprepared.
> > >
> > > That emergent meaning interferes with the plain intention of the sentence,
> > and you
> > > get a conflicting meaning of ``to unprepare,'' to fail to prepare.
> > >
> > > It is that verb that fails to exist.
> >
> > Well, yes. Let me ask you this, then: Do you feel the examples I quoted from
> > the CALD ("undaunted/unaffected by") imply such conflicting meanings, too?
> > If not, can you explain why you think "unprepared by" does? It's a little
> > less usual, but that's probably all.
> >
> > I can't help feeling you're going out of your way to read an absurd meaning
> > into a sentence that isn't necessarily absurd. If your intuitive reaction is
> > to reject the sentence, then fine, but I'd disagree with the notion that a
> > reasonable interpretation can be rendered impossible by the possibility of
> > an implausible alternative one.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ekkehard
> >
> >
>
> What about this?
>
> "For man in the West is by education, by tradition and by temperament
> unprepared for the religion of ahimsa..."
>
> <http://www.gandhi-manibhavan.org/remeniscenes/chap23.htm>
> Some Reminiscences of the visit of Mahatma Gandhi to Romain Rolland in
> 1931
>
> HWL

In other words, was not a word simply dropped unintentionally?

HWL

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