From: zeborah@gmail.com   
      
   Brian M. Scott  wrote:   
      
   ["cull":  "to select" vs "to select those which you're going to kill"]   
      
   > Can you really not say 'We went through the slush pile and   
   > culled out enough good stories for an anthology'?   
      
   I was going to say you can, but then I realised I'd misread it as   
   culling out the stories *not good enough* in order to send them back to   
   the author.  And I suspect that the negative sense of "cull" influenced   
   my misreading.  So... now I'm not sure.  I think it'd be odd to use   
   "cull" in such a positive sense, at least.   
      
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