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> That at the moment this should 500 seems thoroughly apropos. Thoroughly with reference to…

• throwanem 5y ago
  If nothing else with reference to a commonly cited trait of genius being that it have its head in the clouds. That, or I suppose to the idea of someone who takes the care to compile (what I assume to be) a checklist of traits of genius, should fail to consider the basic necessity of ensuring it remain available so that people can read it. But perhaps they are the same.
  • csa 5y ago
    Fwiw, I was commenting on the use of “apropos” versus “appropriate”. I will let you look up those words, but apropos is frequently misused on HN.
    • throwanem 5y ago
      Prescriptivism seems as footless here as in any other attempted application to the vernacular, but if it helps ease your mind at all, OED has the adjectival sense in which I used it above, and in which it's frequently seen here and elsewhere.