[Vision2020] CJ's exterior wall art

[Chasuk]

Ken, if Gmail had a 'thumbs up" button, I'd have clicked it.

On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 1:11 PM Kenneth Marcy <kmmos1 at frontier.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> 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."
>
> 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."
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
>
> Ken
>
>
>
>
> On 09/13/2016 07:05 PM, CJ's Night Club wrote:
>
> Dear Ken,
>
> 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.
>
> Cheers,
> The Rodericks
>
> ------------------------------
> *From: *"Kenneth Marcy" <kmmos1 at frontier.com> <kmmos1 at frontier.com>
> *To: *vision2020 at moscow.com
> *Sent: *Tuesday, September 13, 2016 6:47:23 PM
> *Subject: *[Vision2020] CJ's exterior wall art
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
>
> Ken
>
>
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