<div dir="ltr">Ken, if Gmail had a 'thumbs up" button, I'd have clicked it.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 1:11 PM Kenneth Marcy <<a href="mailto:kmmos1@frontier.com">kmmos1@frontier.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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First, the literal truth: Nowhere in the Argonaut's 13 September
2016 front-page article does the word-for-word phrase "going out of
business" appear.<br>
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However, one of the useful, interesting, and occasionally amazing
features of the English language is its ability to use different
words, or different strings of words, to indicate the same, or very
similar, ideas, concepts, or understandings. For example, on the
front page, above the fold, under a page-wide photograph with the
paper's masthead superimposed, is the caption "CJ's Nightclub, a
popular spot for swing dancing, closed in August after 19 years of
serving the community of the Palouse in downtown Moscow." Under a
page-wide headline, and above the author's by-line, is the heading
"CJ's Nightclub closes its doors."<br>
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The caption and the heading do not indicate "closed until next
evening" or "closed for remodeling" or some other phrase that
implies after the passage of a period of time, that a reopening will
occur. The phases "closed . . . after 19 years" and ". . . closes
its doors" imply a closing after which there will be no re-opening.
The clear implication is that CJ's Nightclub, as a business, is gone
forever. Another way of stating the same idea is to say "CJ's is
going out of business." Actually, to be a bit more precise about
it, since the closing occurred in August, and it is now September,
the verb should be in the past tense: "CJ's went out of business" or
"CJ's has gone out of business."<br>
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Now, if CJ's Nightclub, as a business, is, in fact, going to be
reopened, that's a different matter. That's news. That's the
opposite of what was reported today.<br>
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The closing of a particular business does not imply anything about
the physical building within which the business operated. That same
building might soon house some other business, either of a similar
type or something entirely different. Perhaps a similar business
named The Lazarus Lounge will arise in the same space. Or maybe a
Millennial Market will cater to the special needs of newer area
residents, or another incarnation of Nature's Nostrums, or
Outrageous Others, or yet some other awful alliteration. As it
stands now, CJ's, as a particular business, conducting its unique
blend of activities, is gone.<br>
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That does not imply that the owners of the building are gone, or
that they won't find some interesting and successful successor
activity for the physical space that used to house CJ's Nightclub,
which is now closed, and out of business. But those owners were not
the subject of the sentence indicating that CJ's is out of
business. CJ's may be gone, but the building owners are not. Two
different ideas requiring the compositional clarity of two (or more)
different sentences.<br>
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Ken</div><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><br>
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<div>On 09/13/2016 07:05 PM, CJ's Night Club
wrote:<br>
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<div>Dear Ken,</div>
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<div>Please reread the print edition of the UI Argonaut. No
where does it state your claim, "going out of business." For
the record, the Rodericks simply retired. They have several
options with the building. They will decide that at the
appropriate time.</div>
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<div>Cheers,</div>
<div>The Rodericks</div>
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<div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><b>From: </b>"Kenneth
Marcy" <a href="mailto:kmmos1@frontier.com" target="_blank"><kmmos1@frontier.com></a><br>
<b>To: </b><a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com" target="_blank">vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>
<b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, September 13, 2016 6:47:23 PM<br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Vision2020] CJ's exterior wall art<br>
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<span size="+3" style="font-size:medium">I noticed in the print edition of
the UI Argonaut that CJ's is going out of business. The
paper printed a picture of the exterior wall art on the east
side of the building.<br>
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I wonder what the future holds for that artwork, and whether
those with an interest in it will attempt or accomplish more
than taking higher resolution photographs of it.<br>
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Ken<br>
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