Re Re: [ADS-L] conduction

[sagehen]

>In a message dated 9/29/06 11:32:57 AM, laurence.horn at YALE.EDU writes:
>
>
>> "Conduction" in the sense of 'performance as/practice of a (musical)
>> conductor' is unattested in the OED or other dictionaries I just
>> checked.  Seems interesting to me (if only as an example of
>>> semi-productive morphology).
>>
>> LH
>>
>
>I did a quick Google search and found 778 responses, mostly respectable. My
>question was not intended to be snide--it just seems like a totally natural
>usage to me, one that I thought I had heard all my life. I was surprised
>not to
>find it specifically in NOAD, and I am even more surprised not to find it in
>OED. I assumed that this was just one of those totally transparent
>morphological
>extensions that NOAD did not specifically mention because it was so
>transparent (NOAD does not enter it as a separate sense at all, though
>NOAD uses it in
>a citation in the electrical sense).
>
>If one didn't say "under the conduction of" what WOULD one say? The
>morphology seems inevitable.
>
>So I guess it is "interesting" -- what else could it be? why hasn't it been
>noticed before? have any prescriptivists railed against it?
>
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 "Conduction" somehow suggests heat & electricity transfer to me & sounds
awkward as the word for the maestro's direction.  "Conducting"  sounds
normal and "under the baton of" most common .
AM

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