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Similarly, Mexico's output--two-thirds of which will be exported--is expected to rise 10 percent a year for the next three years, while even the Japanese, whose car companies are among the only bright spots in a forlorn economy, are adding to capacity.
That, as we all know, is a forlorn hope (to abuse a Dutch cliché): those who “know” that when two or more people or things are the subject of a verb you have to use were , not was , regardless of the context, are like those who “know” (like the people at Elizabeth Arden) that millennium is spelled with one n, who “know” that it is Parmagiana , not Parmigiana (like the people at Burger King), and who have no doubt that baking soda, baking powder, washing soda, and ice-cream soda are all the same thing.
As I pursue my research on the Johnson family in my cagelike cubbyhole in the LBJ library in Austin, Texas, I listen to his voice and remember how it sounded when I was a kid growing up in a forlorn little timber town in Texas.
As I was not at the symposium, I can only assume that the symposiasts concerned themselves less (if at all) with the problem of trying to urge editors to engage professional lexicographers as reviewers than with the effort of trying to ensure that editors be provided with certain guidelines on How To Review A Dictionary, which they fondly expect would be passed on to the selected amateur reviewers thereby making them competent, professional reviewers, a forlorn hope at best.
It is a little careworn and forlorn today and may be worth visiting only for its view of the harbor.
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