Re: CNN: Giant Dinosaur-Age Bones in Antarctica Clue toWarmerClimaten

[Philidor11@aol.com]

In a message dated 7/10/99 12:10:19 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
Keith90291@aol.com writes:

<<   In a sense, his offense is no greater than that 
 of a writer who slaps the label of dinosaur on an aged titan of industry.  
 The co-worker showed slightly more grace at being set straight on the term 
 dinosaur than I would have, had I been taken to task by a Classics professor 
 over the fact that the industrialist in my example could not have been the 
 offspring of Uranus and Gaea.  In short, words have a life of their own 
 beyond the pikes and maces of the purists.     >>

Be graceful; your titan has hardly been overthrown and imprisoned as the 
titans were by Zeus (Jupiter)  and his father Cronos (Saturn) and his father 
before him (Uranus).  Tough life.  Titans are big but also monstrous, so I 
guess the simile has some use.   You could call your industrialist one of the 
hecatoncheires, sort of brothers of the titans, who were supposed to be very 
handsome despite having 100 hands and 50 heads, sort of like an organization 
chart, and this would have the advantage of driving your copy editor nuts. 
Just a thought.