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Sentence correction: I presume that to pursue MBA, experience is not matter. | meaning of "going on seven"

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Sun Jun 01, 2008 18:01 pm lack vs lacking

lost_soul wrote:

Could you tell me if you find the above usage of "lacking" unnatural ?

Hi Alex
Did you notice that the author referred to 'this concept of lacking'? To me this is an indication that the author is aware that the way he uses the word 'lacking' is not typical. This appears to be a highly specialized usage -- possibly a usage invented by the by the author himself. You'll find a number of unusual usages of the word 'lacking' in that article.

If you want to talk to Ken Moffat about a specialized concept that he refers to as 'lacking', no problem. If you want to use the word 'lacking' in a more typical and natural way, you might want to avoid reading Ken's article. Laughing

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Sun Jun 01, 2008 18:23 pm lack vs lacking

Yes; the author puts "lacking" in inverted commas or italics, e.g.

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In fact, the reliance on lack or anti-production is one of the strangest and most pervasive qualities of capitalism (Deleuze and Guattari 1983).

The lacking within the capitalist system is tied to the exercise of creating reductive measures (rabattu).

The inverted commas / italics indicate that the word is to be understood in a special sense. (It also seems to relate to an article by Deleuze and Guattari.)

I did wonder idly whether Moffatt's term represented some Marxian original (perhaps Mangel, "shortage", "deficiency").

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Sun Jun 01, 2008 20:12 pm lack vs lacking

stew.t. wrote:

Hi Alex

This quote looks familiar, care to let us know your source?
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Hi, Stew

Sure, here is the link: http://radicalpedagogy.icaap.org/content/issue8_2/moffatt.html

Yankee wrote:

If you want to talk to Ken Moffat about a specialized concept that he refers to as 'lacking', no problem. If you want to use the word 'lacking' in a more typical and natural way, you might want to avoid reading Ken's article. Laughing

Laughing

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Hi, Amy

Spare me, please Smile

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I have no urge to talk to Ken Moffat, I only wanted to give "the lacking of" a fare trial, and I see it is guilty of being unnatural and unusual, and that's really all I hoped to find out Smile

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