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Mary E Birnbaum's avatar

Thanks for this wonderful idea! Instead of submit, offer. Instead of reject, decline. And the joke about declensions someone threw in via a comment! No need to belabor the "church offerings" meaning...this is a minor use of the word. We are always offering all kinds of things to each other. ("More cake? Potato chips? Can I be of assistance?")

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Lindsey Morrison Grant's avatar

I chuckled at your suggestion that the word "offering" had a religious tone. Mostly because since my all-too-lengthly evangelical experience, the word "Submition" has a particularly heinous connotation for me. I like the concept of framing the work for consideration as a "freewill offering." but I will now (thanks to you connecting the submission dots for me) will no doubt be doing an emotional double-take when SUBMITTING my precious literary children for editorial scrutiny and potential subjecation. LOL. Keep coming back (to reframing)... it works.

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