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From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.bitnet@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: food (was re: Jones)

On Thu, 9 Apr 1992 07:09:47 GMT <DBFABAK@CFRVM> said:
>
>>>seen people more involved with food than computer people, except for
>>>Baptists. :-)
>
>And what about Baptist Computer People!!

Baptist Computer People have the most to worry about as far as weight
gain, being with both groups.
>
>Don, who is on doctor ordered diet - and has lost 25 lbs so far, mostly
>on Ultra-Barf.

Congratulations!

Evelyn
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From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor%RA.MSSTATE.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (38)

> I've always understood that it was incorrect usage.  "Where's the car
> _at_?"  "Who'd you go _with_?"  The first is redundant; you only need to
> ask "Where's the car?"

I agree.  Of course it's also redundant to say "I walkED home YESTERDAY."
Why not "I walk home yesterday"?

> and the second should properly read, "With whom did
> you go?"

Hmmmm.  I must be more careful about propriety.  I have sinned.  I
have found myself saying "Who'd you go with?" on at least several
occasions.  Wonder if that's considered "cause" for firing of tenured
faculty...

> Mark me as one of the ones who strongly dislike (my mother's euphemism, not
> my preferred verb) it when I hear "assk" pronounced "aks', or "idea" as

Ah, language change....  The metathesis occurred hundreds of years ago.
I guess the s and k reversed because it's "better" to have the s first.
In Old English the k preceded the s.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         Frank McLellan <ST403231%BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Pedant's Corner (was Russian speakers
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>From:         "815 Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980" <TA0SHK1@NIU.BITNET>
>
>Frank in Rhode Island notes that I left out one of the "cannot be"s
>from his Great Chain of Cannot Being.  But if I put it back in, his
>statement gets even odder: A cannot be B cannot be C, as in
>"Economics cannot be codified into laws."
>
Ah, me, if only I had put in a smiley.  When I said that, Steve, I
was trying to put a cute yet illogical spin on what I had originally
said.  Yes, people have codified economics into laws, or have at least
died trying.  Law and economics are an old and unholy couple, and I
would certainly not try to imply that they had never or could never
cohabitiate.  I should have quit while I was ahead, as you certainly
understood what I meant in my first posting, but my unbesmilied reply
seems to have come across as far too serious.  Oh, bother.

>Doesn't stop us from trying: we have the law of demand, the law
>of unintended consequences, the Sherman Antitrust Act, the Full
>Employment and Price Stability Act, and law and economics.
>
Couldn't we also add the creation of the Federal Reserve and the in-
troduction of the graduated income tax to that list?  Just wondering.

>Steve Karlson

Frank, who has heretofore not posted his last name because he hates it when
people misspell it, as they often do.  There are no Civil War generals among
my ancestors (although my stepmother is a decendant of Robert E. Lee).
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From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor%RA.MSSTATE.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (38)
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> what, why, and how.  Today I am lucky if I can stop myself from ending my
> sentences with a preposition ... alas, but thank God my mother isn't around

Why would you consider it lucky to stop yourself from ending sentences with
prepositions?
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Thu, 16 Apr 1992 22:51:20 -0500
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From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood%TENET.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Well, really.
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Rats!  Where did everybody go?  Here it is Thursday night, with a
holiday tomorrow when I don't have to get up at 4:30 a.m., and I'm here
all by myself?  I'm almost desperate enough to try to come up with a
definition of slang.
ndh
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From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood%TENET.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Elvis stamp
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>
> > > I want the Elvis of 1955!
> >
> >      We are talking about stamps, not another plaything for you
> > take home, Natalie.
>
> Don't Be Cruel.
>    --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
>      President of Elvis Presley Fan Club, Jackson Mississippi,
>      1956(?) with newspaper clipping to prove it if somebody can
>      make a gif out of an aged, yellow, crumbling newspaper page

Right...we are likely to get All Shook Up if Bob acts like a Hound Dog
about our Elvis memories.
ndh
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From:         Tushar Samant <tushar%ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: econometrics (long)

>Why must I be so predictable as to call anyone a aarrgghh nerd? --

There isn't anything wrong with being predictable per se, I say.
(That would be a bit like a friend, who shrieked, "But that means
you are for status quo !" as if that in itself was horrible.)

>simplicity is almost always the best proof.

Now isn't That an overworked platitude ?

Anyway, the main point of my letter is this :

>( ...      I didn't really understand anything until I could make it
>understandable to my students without leaning on notational crutches.
>The formalization simply helps to create a mystique for the non-
>cogniscenti.)
>
>JAG
>^bwp


I must differ. Notation is generally introduced to simplify things which
would be impossible to do otherwise. (Actually this is the first time I
have heard anyone object to Notation, as opposed to a particular notation!)
Formalization is necessary if you have to go to any depth at all. You can
get a good intuitive idea of many things without resorting to Notation -
nice noun - but there is no good way to manipulate the ideas without
introducing some sort of notation. What kind of arithmetic could we do,
for instance, if we didn't have the decimal system ?

Although there is enough absurd notation going around, it's a good idea
to give the "notator" the benefit of doubt. It might be laughable to say
"An operating system is defined as a quintuple (A, s, delta, M, big-sigma),"
but maybe it does simplify things.

And if it really creates a mystique, it cannot be helped. One generally
tries to keep it as simple as possible.

tushar
__________________________________________________________________________
When an Englishman stated Wilson's theorem and claimed that it cannot be
proved "for we don't have notation powerful enough for it," Gauss proved
it on the spot and said "Not notations, but notions."
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From:         The Ronin <WHITERJ%MSCD.BITNET@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: roll call

Proclaimeth   droby@NOVA.TCS.TUFTS.EDU

>       But only God can make a tree!

> - Dr. DR, PhfffffDt

     I take you aren't doing well in Data Structures?  Or are you being
hit with File Structures first?

The Ronin, who makes and breaks trees
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From:         BGRISSOM%UKCC.UKY.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU
Subject:      Re: Pre-Clam Slam
              9 Apr 1992 21:00:02 CDT from <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

>Thanks for the descriptions!  I'm having a great time trying to picture
>the scene.
>
>How many of today's gatherers had met each other "in real life" before?
>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

 Yes, more details, please!

 bog
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From:         Don Thornton <DTHORNTN%BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject: RE: Jones
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>                                                 ...      Is BWP'ing
>an 'ethnic' thing?
>The Ronin

.I realize that I don't quite measure up in terms of BWP-ery, but I
.wanted to get my bid in for the Danes.  I am half Danish, with the
.other side your basic Heinz-57 (a little Irish, Scottish, French,
.English, German, etc.)
.Jill

I'll go for the Danish tack (get a good start). But that couldn't be why
we can't make it to bwp.

Don, who draws and is quartered into danish, french, german, english.
From: gtoal@castle.ed.ac.uk (Graham Toal)
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Subject: Re: BWP Stats 4/8/92 *The Ronin Takes the Gold!*
Date: 10 Apr 92 08:13:45 GMT
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In article <9204091933.AA25780@Ra.MsState.Edu> maynor%RA.MSSTATE.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU (Natalie Maynor) writes:
:> Or perhaps Natalie might finally consider switching this group
:> to moderated status if only to filter out the 50 messages a day
:> asking 'is the system dead or is it just me?'.
:
:Hohohohohoho.  That has *GOT* to be a joke!  This list moderated?????
:And *NOW* I'm logging off.  Bye.
:   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)



Glad *someone* can spot humour without the smileys...

G
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From:         Czarina Rita <rita%EFF.ORG@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Fitting in
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        Wow.  English geeks.  Lots 'o them, even!  When I first got on
the net (1987), such a thing was barely heard of.  Well, now that I feel
inspired I'd best get back to writing that freakin' newsletter...

Rita Rouvalis
Associate Editor
Electronic Frontier Foundation
rita@eff.org
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From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE%IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: away for a few days
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              4 Apr 1992 11:51:00 EST from <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU>

On Sat, 4 Apr 1992 11:51:00 EST The harder I work, the behinder I get said:
>>15000 blocks?  How did you get 15000 blocks?
>
>	No, I said I'd *cleared* 15000 blocks.  I *have* 50000.
>
>	When you do research that generates 5000-block data files and 600-block
>	output files (several of them at a time), you get big allocations.
>
>	If I asked, I'd get more...

So how big are blocks on your system?  1k?  1/2 k?  other?

I only have 6600 blocks (1k), but all it gets used  for is mail....so it
generally suffices....

dan
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From:         Tushar Samant <tushar%ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Archie comics

Anne says:

>No, let's.  Far be it for me to differ ... but wotthehell ... yer outta

You have differed.

>there, big time on this one, Tush.  _Archie_ et.al. is to growing up
>American as marmite is to creating that British "stiff upper lip" ;^)

Different folks, different strokes. All the characters were the most
unbelievably amorphous I have ever seen. And although fiction IS about
making your characters do whatever you want, there is a "standard
dialect" for such puppeteering which is conventionally accepted :-)

>You challenge the foundations of my socialization as an American.  Hmpf.

Everyone MUST challenge the foundations of all socialization. Hah.



> Still have a hard time accepting that Americans aren't as ignorant as
> the majority appear.

Americans in the Universities are not at all ignorant. But maybe that's
not an unbiased sample. I have some more to say about this.

tushar
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From:         The Ronin <WHITERJ%MSCD.BITNET@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      RE: Technogeek Perhaps Saves The Day

Sayeth        "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

> Ha!  Even Bernardykins, while frantically evading being chopped by a
> sword, will admit that FWP is not boring.

     What is Frank using, a claymore?  I cannot believe that
Bernardykins is that fast, so the problem must be on Frank's end.  If
he was using a bat I would advise him to choke-up on it, but this gets
painful when one is using a sword.  Perhaps going to a lighter,
livelier sword would even up the fight.  As a worst case Frank can
always use a foil.  It isn't much good for doing damage, but it should
be nimble enough to spank errrant animals.

The Ronin
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From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor%RA.MSSTATE.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject: Re: Bitnet or Internet Words-L?

> copies of each message, but the Internet copies are arriving at least
> two hours after the Bitnet ones.  Anyone out there know if this is just a
> temporary thing?  Is it better to subscribe through Internet rather than
> Bitnet?  It's more important to me to get the posts as quickly as

The same thing is happening to me -- has been for most of this week.
I *hope* it's temporary.  It is definitely a change in the usual
routine.  Internet is far, far faster and more efficient than bitnet
most of the time.  UGA has a problem that I thought had been solved
this morning.  It came back tonight, however.  My internet mail from
UGA is being delayed by a couple of hours, although my internet mail
TO UGA is getting there promptly -- I know that because the postings
I've sent are showing up on usenet a couple of hours before I get them
as mail.  The odd thing is that the usenet gateway address is also an
internet address.  Things are definitely screwed up right now.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         Jenna <GE777009%BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: April Ahead, October Other
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>From:         Mark Susskind <NY911179@PACEVM.BITNET>
>
>
>I grew tired of the slogan, "Spring Ahead, Fall Back", so last year,
>I contrived "April Ahead, October Other".
>Besides, a retractable pen may 'spring back' many times in its life.
>

Actually, when i was working on Fisher's Island and had to get up at
5:00am, we used to say this "spring forward, fall apart"

*yawn*

Jenna "see you at the pre-clam slam"
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From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor%RA.MSSTATE.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Descriptive and prescriptive

> In short, it's still a *should*, because the interviewer is
> accountable to somebody else, who has given the interviewer a set
> of standards by which to judge job applicants.

In that case, the answer to the "should" question depends upon the
instructions the interviewer has been given to follow.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood%TENET.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Tarmac rugrats
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On Tue, 7 Apr 1992, Carol Goodson wrote:

> I too was subjected to vicious teasing as a child, and it left some
> permanent scars on the old self-esteem.... I'm not sure what the answer is,
> though... I found out that they turned out to be o.k. as adults... I did
> accidentally spend 2 years as an elementary school teacher, and had some good
> results with one-on-one counseling with the abusers... maybe we need to train
> kids to complain about it, not just take it... I never told anyone, just
> suffered in silence and shame.

It's neat that you perceived the problem and worked with the abusers...
so many times the teacher doesn't see these things...or perhaps *chooses*
not to see them (the old "let them fight their own battles" gambit)..
and I agree that children need to speak up...when somebody teased me, my
perception as a child was always that the fault was with me and not with them.
ndh
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From:         "815 Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980"
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Subject:      Sinking Chicago update.

The leak-pluggers may be able to plug the hole in the bottom of
the river soon, and the water reclamation authority stand ready to
cut a hole from the flooded tunnels over to the deep tunnel.  The
problem has become more complex, because water flowing through the
old train tunnels eroded a plug and flowed into a new tunnel being
dug for Commonwealth Edison, the electric company.  Fortunately
the new tunnel was not yet complete; if it were, the electrical
fireworks may have been very interesting.

Steve Karlson
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Subject:      never impressed

Said:         Don Thornton <DTHORNTN@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>

>The soon to be fufilled feelings of revenge in
>"My Boyfriend "s Back'
>always pleased me.
>
>Don

This always seemed sexist to me -- female needed male to 'save'
her reputation.  Besides, "boyfriend" was asking for an assault
conviction -- or worse.


JAG
^bwp
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Date:         Fri, 17 Apr 1992 08:45:18 CDT
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From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor%RA.MSSTATE.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Reflections on the matter of language change
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>   Was the true identity of Galmin ever established?

His userid and address were consistent on the various lists he tried
to wreck.  I've forgotten now what they were, although I could probably
track them down somewhere -- the userid was initials, the address @NIH
(National Institute of Health).  One of the many things to the credit of
WORDS-L is that we didn't let Galmin break us.  I've seen lists fall
apart or (YUCK) become moderated because of the attempted disruption of
Galmin (under other pseudonyms).
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         The Ronin <WHITERJ%MSCD.BITNET@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject: re ' '

Inquireth     DBFABAK@CFRVM.BITNET

> Confuseth the Ronin:
        ^^^
     I don't care if the list does think that eth'ing in response to
Ronin postings is covered by the 'Fair Use' doctrine, that is my
schtick and I say it is protected.

>
> >     No need to get drastic, here.  The Ronin was in class and then
> >attempted a COBOL student, but he is back on the terminal for a couple
>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> What does that mean?

     Uh, that the Ronin should go back and retake his high school
typing course?  This isn't the only problem of this sort that I did
last night.

     Contrary to a number of people's sentiments, the only thing I
attempt with COBOL students is to help them.  The system manuals are
virtually unavailable and half the profs don't understand the language
well enough to write the programs they assign.  Disgusting.  The PC
labs (run by a separate department) are just as bad.  All of the
IBM-PC clones have Turbo Pascal and C++, but the manuals aren't
available in the labs.  The only way to have the manual is to own a
copy of the software anyway, which generally means one has a PC home,
so why waste time at the lab?  (The lab aides are instructed that
assisting people to understand how to use the software is not part of
their job.)  Go figure.

The Ronin
From: gtoal@castle.ed.ac.uk (Graham Toal)
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Subject: Re: propositions and prepositions
Summary: [Shamelessly plagiarised]
Date: 11 Apr 92 10:01:36 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

In article <WORDS-L%92041018125718@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> TA0SHK1%NIU.bitnet@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU (815 Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980) writes:
:Graham gets into trouble ending sentences with propositions.
:
:It could be worse: there's the story of the man who went into the
:tenderloin district looking for some action ... he hit on an
:undercover policewoman ... his proposition ended with a sentence.

And he was gay, and got killed in prison trying to chat up a
butch lifer; his sentence ended with a proposition.

G
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From:         Frank Peters <fwp%CC.MSSTATE.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Reflections on the matter of language change
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In article <WORDS-L%92041523221946@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> BORING
 <FDOLEZAL%UGA.bitnet@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU> says:

>what is so tedious about defining 'slang'.

Funny thing about definitions...they use words.  So we can define the
word 'slang' and then happily set about defining the words used in the
definition...and so on.  And there's the tedium.

Interestingly, many intelligent people manage to hold useful
conversations without having to pause to define every fifth term.  It
is your seeming inability to do so that we find so frustrating.  One
might almost suspect that you are being deliberately rather than
accidentally thick headed.

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Frank Peters  -  UNIX Systems Programmer  -  Mississippi State University
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Date:         Tue, 7 Apr 1992 18:09:00 MDT
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From:         The Ronin <WHITERJ%MSCD.BITNET@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Jones

Sayeth        Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>

> it...I just thought my Welsh was showing.

     Wait a minute, it still may be.  I am Scottish, Irish, and Welsh.
Quick, what are the heredities of the rest of the BWP's.  Is BWP'ing
an 'ethnic' thing?

The Ronin
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