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Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2007 9:51 am**

pro·sa·ic (pr-zk)
adj.
1.
a. Consisting or characteristic of prose.
b. Matter-of-fact; straightforward.
2. Lacking in imagination and spirit; dull.

[Late Latin prsaicus, from Latin prsa, prose; see prose.]

pro·sai·cal·ly adv.
pro·saic·ness n.

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mark I-love-purple-prose Bailey

Posted: **Sat Oct 16, 2010 1:13 pm**

As it's the third anniversary of this post, I figured I'd take it off the list.

It did get treated, but the suggestion seems to have been taken from the blog, not the Agora, to judge by the attribution.

MB was not pleased.

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