the "schwa" - a bizarre holdover from the 1970's? a Project Paperclip wet dream? It's worse than fluoridated city water - a ubuiquitous, silent, weapon, easily conforming itself to any shape within any

word, a Teletubbie, a degeneracy-virus penetrating every phonemic crevice. Eerily, even pleasantly, trotted out as "established" or "accepted", yet clearly  accepted only under duress and by clouded minds. And whom does it effect?

Do Russian dictionaries (the ones printed in Russian, in Russia) have schwa"s?    

   The proper way to phonemically represent the sounds falsely represented by the "schwa", as may have been done in some previous era, is a crossed-thru one of those uncial capital E's, or a crossed-thru neutral phonemic vowel closest to the one written. Schwa is used to

substitute for, inotherwords despecify,  a variety of now-unstressed syllables, the reason for despecification remaining perhaps ill-advised, and yet unquestionable.

   Schwa is used  to aid in the glossing-over of any "becoming" in language, as if a placeholder for placeholding itself-- a mysterious and quiet time machine:  time thawed by the "schwa", as it

accelerates the reader into a future that will never arrive, a future where all unstressed syllables are basically indistinguishable, then snaps him/her back into the present where superficiality and 

mincing have rounded the teeth and weakened the gums so as 2 cause speakers 2 avoid all sensitivity and articulation wherever possible, such as inbetween syllables. The introduction of the "schwa"

informs, expertly, that one must slur one's speech. It is another devious sort of device-aiding-device, a device aid, for it remains, during the day, unexamined, inocuously supporting slyness and

insinuity in white-on-white racism, &c., emerging at night 2 give life 2 the whirlwind. The "schwa" functions as a makeshift drycleaning tag, showing up whatever else is correct or corrected, where it is not. It is a made-in-China,

generically outsourced substitute-brand cushion in the train couplings of a word or phrase, sucking the life out of it, making it look necessary or normal or inevitable. It is a swastika. 

personal, spiritual, or charismatic >> "power" of the message [of a small group]

--this is how the word becomes misused.   This is how it starts becoming misused.

   control of rivers, canals, entrance gates, includes admin. sense plus ~ device sense (levers, buttons)

                           ~ as in, administration (reins)  

   ~pests, lawns, etc. (spray or shielding armies(restraint sense))

LEVERS, REINS, RESTRAINING ARMIES

   ~ agency, liaison, terms of agreement;  issuances, decrees, titles, charters; 

DECREES, LIAISON, TITLE, ISSUANCES, TERMS

 ~situations, processes, projects; public image, critical information as per availability

 ~supplies, as in ordering, or supply chains (see first category, this entry)

 ~chemical mixtures or theatrical atmospheres

AGENTS, TEAMS, or SITUATIONS, CAMPAIGNS, PROJECTS, or IMAGES, INFORMATION or SECRETS

answers to the question: " the word 'control' can be used as in, 'control of' what, specifically, or 'to control' what?" 

Mood:  lyrical

   ^A § wakeful § question § conversation-related §

   Does any1 ever properly classify, say, Dalmatian's spots patterns, when pressed to...? 

^B§ sleepful § not a question § fantasy §

   birds on row, typing by knocking off some birds, others flee, others flee & return. The dilemma is in encompassing, incompletely.

implied variation + ghost transitioning 

1) slave-related, then worker-related, use of the word "rule" written into stories (starting in the 1700's?), justifies & assists

 

2) previously existing (?) "reins" usage of the verb "to control,  viz.  "ctrl. reins, "ctrl. horses, "ctrl. carriage, "ctrl. luge, "ctrl. realm;

 

3) variation (in this case, a sort of expansion in range) is implied, :  "to ctrl."  as in "to orchestrate, ~grab reins, ~hold land claims, ~maintain political relationships, (eagle's claw on $ bill) persists,     yet alongside "to ctrl." as in "to ctrl. device, ~ctrl. machine, ~ctrl. slaves, with the meaning of the first newly capable of being shaded with the meaning of the second, as justified via the changes elsewhere (in 1 & 2 above)-- this is what i am labeling "ghost transitioning. When could this be seen as having clearly been established? I'll guess 1900's, early.

   ¹perk  \^'pυrk\        vb [ME] vi (14c)  1  a: to thrust up the head, stretch out the neck, or carry the body in a bold or insolent manner  b:  to stick up or out jauntily  2 : to gain in vigor or cheerfulness esp. after a period of weakness or depression -- usu. used with up < he's ~ed up noticeably > ~ vt  1 :  to make smart or spruce up in appearance : FRESHEN, IMPROVE  2 : to thrust up quickly or imprudently

   ²perk vi (1656) : PERCOLATE

   ^{3perk n (1824) : PERQUISITE -- usu. used in pl.}

   perky  \^'pυr-kεε\      adj   perk♦ i♦ er;  -est (1855)   1 :  briskly self-assured : COCKY  2 : JAUNTY < a ~ ...waltz-- New Yorker > -- perk♦ i♦ ly adv --  perk♦ i♦ ness

   per♦co♦late  vb  -lat♦ed; -lat♦ing [L percolatus, pp. of  percolare, fr. per-  through + colare to sieve -- more at PER-, COLANDER]

(from Webster's Collegiate, 10th ed.)

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   ¹or♦tho♦dox  \'or-thυ-_'däaks\ adj [ME orthodoxe, fr.MF or LL; MF orthodoxe, fr. LL orthodoxus, fr. LGk orthodoxos, fr. Gk ortho-  +  doxa opinion-- more at DOXOLOGY] (15c)  1  a : conforming to established doctrine esp. in religion  b : CONVENTIONAL  2 cap : of, relating to, or constituting any of various conservative religious or political groups: as  a : EASTERN ORTHODOX  b :   of or relating to Orthodox Judaism -- or♦tho♦dox♦ly adv

   ²or♦tho♦dox  n, pl or♦tho♦dox also or♦tho♦dox♦es (1587)  1 : one that is orthodox  2 cap :  a member of an Eastern Orthodox church

   or♦tho♦doxy  \'or-thυ- _'däak-se\ n , pl  -dox♦ies (1630)  1 : the quality or state of being orthodox    2 :  an orthodox belief or practice  3 cap  a : Eastern Orthodox Christianity  b : ORTHODOX JUDAISM

   from "Time's Pendulum" by Jo Ellen Barnett (introduction):

   "...that time has no structure, but only a character which can be universally applied to it. In comparison with the intricate and exotic world of matter, time looks quite colorless. What is there to say except that there is an enormous amount of it, that it is relative rather than absolute, and that, incomprehensible as it might seem, it appears that it not only had a beginning but that it may have an end as well?"

   What is there to say except that if there be an amount of something then it has 2 have a beginning and an end?

Solely based on the fact of the existence of an S & M leather shoppe on the corner of Burnside and 9th SW, Portland, Oregon, called "Spartacus", i would say this is a cliché.

Who else should have won? 

   Recent times  find the definition of the word "control" sliding in its own, newly wrong direction, throwing it and its users further off. "Control" is a slang word, now, for "mind control,"  slyly updated to correspond with our newly  updated forms of wage-slavery,  mind-enslavement, etc. Things endlessly condemned and dissected but never scheduled for redaction. Presumably as such redaction could peel back the surface to reveal who is "in"   in  in  "control"   control  control.  Sorry, did i just hear something? Anyways.

   The permission to graft this new hybrid of the meaning of the word "control" seems to be coming from a long-standing convention of smoothing together the "device-related" usage of it as a noun (entry 2, sense 3b, Webster's Collegiate 10th ed.) with the "slavery" variant of the "to exert a restraining or directing influence upon" usage as a verb (entry 1, sense 2a, ibid.) Now since the latter is an implied variation in usage, then I propose the term "implied variant" to describe such a thing.