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Re: Edinburgh International Climbing Arena (EICA) at Ratho

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From: Peter Clinch
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 11:17
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Sam Nelson wrote:
> In article <5c2dngF2ur8onU2@mid.individual.net>,
>  Peter Clinch <p.j.clinch@dundee.ac.uk> writes:
>> Sam Nelson wrote:
>>
>>> How does having the word `International' in the title help?
>> Not particularly, but OTOH I can't see it's a /problem/.  It is of a 
>> size and (so I' told) standard so as to be an international benchmark of 
>> the type, so why go to the trouble of moaning about using the word?
> 
> It carries with it an air of self-importance, pomposity, and positive spin.

But where you've got something that size with that much decent effort 
behind it it's entirely possible that it's /actually/ important, rather 
than deluding itself.  In which case it isn't pompous, it's earned.

I won't comment further, not having played there, but assuming it's a 
jumped up attempt to make something crappy sound better than it is does 
not, AFAICT, seem justified.

And it's stupid to /undersell/ yourself.

Pete.
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Subject: Re: Edinburgh International Climbing Arena (EICA) at Ratho
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 12:17:53 +0100
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