Perhaps your insight incites...

[trinker]

Gaaah

Comments

[agrumer]

I don't suppose "inciteful writing" was being used to mean writing that stirs people up.

[trinker]

Wouldn't *that* have been lovely! (Then I'd be writing a paean of admiration instead of a polemic.) (I admit, I exaggerate for alliterative effect here. I doubt that really counted.)

[trinker]

I am not known for being notably difficult to incite into sharing insights.

[profrobert]

That was my first thought, that it was referring to something like Das Kapital.

Also, "supercede," never ever ever "supersede." Completely different Latin verb roots.

[trinker]

See below. I learned something!

[profrobert]

I blame this on my trying to do 50 things before leaving on vacation, and getting it BASS-ACKWARDS. To start again: "Sedere" is Latin for "to place." Thus, "supersede," is correct because it means "to place before or ahead." "Cedere" means "to retreat." So one who supercedes another would be retreating even faster or ahead of that other. That's why it's an error.

"My typing superseded my brain function."

[trinker]

Evidently the 'cede' spelling is an accepted variant now. I'll toe the descriptivist line on this, I don't like accepting misspellings for expedience sake. (And even as I say that..."expedience's" grates on me, and I follow Barack Obama on the elision.)

[skogkatt]

That was exactly where I went when I first saw it. It took me a minute to figure out why the -sigh-.