Cohousing-L Mailing List: RE: Consensus

[Legal-All Lawyers (Salley]

I thought I was alone in my anguish!
     Rowena
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From: cohousing-l
Subject: Consensus
Date: Monday, March 18, 1996 6:00PM

Nitpicking, annoying grammatical post of the day:

What's with the vocabulary on consensus on this list?

People don't "consense". When a group makes a decision, it isn't 
"consensing."

If you're looking to turn consuensus decision making into a verb, remeber
the essense of consensus. It's not about unanimous agreement. It's about a
group giving it's consent.
So when you turn the noun "consensus" into a verb,
 you don't consense. . . . you CONSENT.

As in: the group consents to this or consented to that.

blah, blah,
 - TS

Todd Samusson
toddsamu [at] teleport.com