We are on the downside of this NAR meeting, and many of us are becoming fatigued. Five or six days of back-to-back meetings, presentations, learning, networking, eating, showing-up, listening, investing and enjoying. All that can be exhausting. Today started out a little bit later, and I was able to sit in my room for an extra hour and catch up on some work. The end of the day (okay, not exactly the end) was spent at the National Building Museum, where a reception was held for RPAC investors. A relatively plain looking building (from what I could see) on the outside, but a lovely building (from what I could see) on the inside. Lovely. There were LOTS of people there, plenty of food, and plenty of drink. Then there was the band and the dancing. And a good time was had by all.Pace -- Preposition. contrary to the opinion of - usually used as an expression of deference to someone's contrary opinion. Pace everyone with a smartphone, I think e-mail is best written and read - and the wilds of the Internet best explored - in the privacy of one's own domicile.
Did You Know? Though used in English for nearly 150 years, the preposition pace has yet to shed its Latin mantle, and for that reason it's most at home in formal writing or in contexts in which one is playing at formality. The Latin word pace is a form of pax, meaning "peace" or "permission," and when used sincerely the word does indeed suggest a desire for both. This Latin borrowing is unrelated to the more common noun pace (as in "keeping pace") and its related verb ("pacing the room"); these also come from Latin, but from the word pandere, meaning "to spread."
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