RE: "Type" vs. "Enter"

["Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com>]

> 
> For example, several years ago, my editor and manager aligned 
> in sympatico with the MicMoS dictum against the specific word 
> "via" and Foreign Words in general. 
<snip>
> 
> "Via" is one such word, and a tragic casualty of the MicMoS' 
> wholesale rules against using Foreign Words and Phrases. Mic 
> MoS "A" embraces 'via' as a highly prized elemental word that 
> is above suspicion--usages are allowed in any specialized or 
> general writing in English.  Though MicMoS proscribes it, yet 
> MicMoS "A"  (and several hundred generations of our 
> ancestors) would be lost without it.  MicMoS "A" celebrates 
> it as a 'soul' word that expresses, in a most profound and 
> direct sense, the unaccountable-but-characteristic human 
> prediliction for giving directions.

The Third Edition of MMOS says this:

Via

 Via implies a geographic context. Avoid using via as a synonym for by,
through, or by means of.
Use the most specific term instead.

--------

I think it's the proper reasoning about use of "via." It seems to be an
argument wholly other than one based on its Latin origins.


Bonnie Granat
http://www.GranatEdit.com 



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