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Date:         Wed, 15 Apr 1992 22:56:31 EDT
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From:         "MR. BORING" <FDOLEZAL%UGA.bitnet@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Reflections on the matter of language change
              15 Apr 1992 21:36:25 CDT from <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

On Wed, 15 Apr 1992 21:36:25 CDT Natalie Maynor said:
>
>I'm beginning to find this tediously boring.  Ok, leave out Grimm's
>Law if you find it too theoretical.
>
WOW.           put it in or leave it out, the whole thing is theoretical; so
ok be bored.   You misapprehend my argument, just as I am willing to concede
the same; but pleez...TOO theoretical???    hardly.
>> 'cultural change': I do not know what this means, could you give me an
>> example?
>
>Cultural change means a change in culture.

you got me laughing, but the joke is RAHTHA tedjus, eh?  or you stumped?
>
>I guess you're right.  If a tornado causes my house to cave in, it was
>the intention of that tornado to do so.

cute grammatical trick, but really, you mean to equate human language with
a tornado?  we all know tornado make noise, but not at all covered by
lautgesetzen.
>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

BTW,   Welcome to the list!!!
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From:         Lobstrosities Unite <CHRISS%CWU.bitnet@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: CALLING ALL STUDENTS OF RUSSIAN

>So talking is more enjoyable if you're thinking about which words are
>acting as direct objects and which as indirect objects as you talk?
>I guess I need to try that sometime.

No, not any more than driving would be enjoyable if you think about how the
pistons are operating and gears are meshing and wheels are turning. But it does
help when something breaks down.  Or if you happen to be a room of mechanics
and want to fit in.

Chris
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From:         torkel%SICS.SE@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU
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              14 Apr 92 11:10:24 -0400. <9204141646.AA04187@sics.se>

  >Oh-KAY, I begin to see the problem. It's a question of
  >what are the causes and what are the effects. Torkel
  >seems to be afraid that our culture is going to go down
  >the tubes (may I say "go down the tubes" rather than
  >"disintegrate"?) because "we" permit a lax use of language.

  Sorry, but this is pure fantasy on your part. It is the bane of numberless
discussions over the net that people are very quick to make assumptions
and find it very hard to stick to what is actually said. In this group,
for example, we had the business about thinking machines, in which
the arbitrary attribution of beliefs concerning souls and other matters
very quickly swamped the discussion.
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From:         Carol Goodson <CGOODSON%UGA.bitnet@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: SHOUT-LAND...HELP!!!

actually, I was wondering when I first saw this: so what?  as long as it's
      readable.
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Date:         Sun, 12 Apr 1992 23:54:00 CDT
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From:         "815 Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980"
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Subject:      My penmanship is messy too.

My penmanship is messy too.  I print almost everything.  The reason
may be that I skipped the grade that covered cursive writing ...
I learned to read at the age of 3 and the Milwaukee Public Schools
didn't know where to put someone who had accomplished on his own
what took them two years to teach to other kids.  My mom and dad
read to me a lot when I was little ... and I was supposedly picking
out soup for lunch by reading the Campbell labels at the age of 2.

I've been committing more pencil slips lately.  My excuse is I have
to read too many student essays full of slips ... all the
descriptivism on the list must be affecting my brain ... if it's
getting into general use it must be right, right? :-)

Steve Karlson

Get a good start and sail on the lifted tack.
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Date:         Thu, 9 Apr 1992 21:06:52 CDT
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From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor%RA.MSSTATE.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Pre-Clam Slam

>  Yes, more details, please!

And suddenly there's silence.  Maybe they've all passed out.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Mon, 13 Apr 1992 11:07:52 +0200
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From:         torkel%SICS.SE@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU
Subject:      Re: ODDS 'N' ENDS
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              10 Apr 92 20:59:44 -0500. <9204110313.AA26562@sics.se>

  Natalie says, about changes in language:

>just about any change that is not a violation of the workings of the
>human speaking apparatus is possible.

  In that case I repeat that there is no linguistic or any other
scientific knowledge that implies that there is "nothing wrong" with
changes in language.  The idea that there is nothing wrong with any
changes in human culture that can be attributed to factors that are in
some sense "natural" or are directly related to people's "needs" is a
value judgment, philosophical in character and in need of further
elucidation, and not something that we can learn from linguistics.

You also answer

  >Yes.  If the speakers of English don't need any more than grunts, there's
  >nothing wrong with that system of communication.

  But this was not at all the question. The question was whether it follows
that there is "nothing wrong" with the transformation of English into a
system of grunts. There is nothing wrong at all with the system of
communication used by, say, baboons, but to my mind it would be a bad
thing if the English language were to be transformed into a similar system.
The matter is of course open to debate, but how it settled by the findings
or theories of linguistics?
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From:         Lobstrosities Unite <CHRISS%CWU.bitnet@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: English geeks (was Re: in-jokes and such

Yay!!! Let's hear it for English majors turned programmers.

Chris
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Date:         Thu, 9 Apr 1992 11:21:39 EDT
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From:         Lenny <LABBEY%GTRI01.bitnet@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Lenny is Back

I am back.

What's happening?





           -, /|
            O.O
          =(___)=
             U

          Quincy
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Date: Thursday, 9 Apr 1992 11:41:15 EDT
From: <AMPHYS01@ysub.ysu.edu>
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Subject: Re: Lenny is Back

Welcome home, LABBY


Sharon

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Date:         Sat, 11 Apr 1992 06:57:10 CDT
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From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor%RA.MSSTATE.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject: Re: Understatement of the Year

> How did this get to the list without a hitch ? From what I have understood
> from the oft-repeated re-sent notes, even a "^From: " should cause problems.

Only if something is sent to the same list it came from without getting
rid of the list name in the headers.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Mon, 13 Apr 1992 20:22:45 EDT
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From:         Rashmi Murthy <rashmi%CBIS.ECE.DREXEL.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (39)
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              at Apr 13, 92 8:29 pm

> >
> > What exactly is the MISC list?  Does it stand for Miscellaneous? In
> > other words, is it a lower form of WORDS-L?
> >
>It is indeed miscellaneous. It's for asking various questions unrelated
> to computers.
>
> Steve
>
Hey, you can do that here.  I remember *lots* of questions unrelated to
computers and words on this list.

Hmmm, just can't think of one this minute :)

rashmi
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Date:         Fri, 17 Apr 1992 10:20:51 EST
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From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET%UGA.CC.UGA.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Reflections on the matter of language change
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Spoiled Meat said:

> Great!  smoked a linguist out of the woods.

Natalie is a linguist, too.  That is why she was so vocal in her
discussion with you.  She is just calmer than I am, and more polite,
coming from the South and all.

Karen
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Date:         Wed, 15 Apr 1992 10:11:36 +0200
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              14 Apr 92 21:33:28 +0000. <9204150235.AA26131@sics.se>

  Bayla says:

  >Now this is strange.  I have a Danish friend, who met her American husband
  >in Sweden: she spoke no English or Swedish, he spoke a bit of Swedish (and
  >of course as a tourist, he had a phrasebook) but *no* Danish at all -- she
  >could understand his Swedish, and he her Danish, enough to carry on a
  >successful courtship.

  Oh yes, it is perfectly possible to communicate in Swedish/Danish. It's
just that the Danish pronunication makes it harder to understand Danish
than Norwegian (for a Swede), and you need some practice to understand
Danish perfectly. I called it grotesque when Danes and Swedes communicate
in English, because there's no need. It happens very seldom, with lazy
people.
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From:         droby%NOVA.TCS.TUFTS.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU
Subject:      Re: TV
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              10 Apr 92 19:31:00 MDT." <9204121313.aa00453@Nova.TCS.Tufts.EDU>

Saith The Ronin <WHITERJ%MSCD.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>:
>
>     I still claim trademark infraction, and you all are in trouble if
>I ever find an honest lawyer.
>

	Ah, we can breathe easy now.

>> Side note:  How many of us wordslers have terrible penmanship?
>> Mine's legible, but barely.
>
>     It has been so long since my handwriting was legible that I do not
>guarantee I still know how to.  I have been printing since 8th grade.
>
>The Ronin

	I also have printed everything but my signature since about that time.
I'm not sure my printing is any more legible than my cursive though.  Rod did
transmute my name into Dan after all - though that could be related to Judith's
assertion at the pre-clam slam that I resemble her mental image of Dan Lester
(known to be a counterfactual mental image from Dan's self-descriptions).

- The Robymeister, Esq.
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Date:         Wed, 15 Apr 1992 05:46:11 CDT
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From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor%RA.MSSTATE.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Goodbye

> and need to get more equipment and rise politically.  Perhaps what is
> needed is for a rabble rouser of sorts to convince enough of the
> student body of the advantages of network access ('free' mail and
> phone service to friends at other institutions, for example) to get
> the attention of the administration (school and CC).

It might also be useful to solicit the help of faculty in various parts
of the university, particularly those who have "ins" with administrators.
Have faculty in various departments mention to administrators in charge
of budgets how useful e-mail can be for their students.  Although some
mainframe offerings are more useful for students in CS, Engineering, etc.,
I can see no reason whatsoever that e-mail is more useful for those
students than for other students.  Interestingly, of the English classes
here that use e-mail for class-related activities, the ones that have
shown resistance to it so far are in Writing for Engineers (or so I was
told by a friend teaching that course -- I've never taught it).  The
friend who told me that said that she was surprised to see how much more
eagerly and easily her typical freshmen in non-technical majors take
to e-mail than her upper-level Engineering majors.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Thu, 16 Apr 1992 16:53:29 EDT
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From:         Mudbugs Unite! <FDOLEZAL%UGA.bitnet@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: The Nashanul Akadame, agin

On Thu, 16 Apr 1992 10:23:00 PST Lobstrosities Unite said:
>
>Really. And whose phonetics would we have used?  Yours, mine, Natalie's, my
>in-laws (strong Mass accent), Ed Koch's, Margaret Thatchers, Tushar's?
>
>To put the phonetic theory to rest, try reading something even in your own
>dialect using the IPA or even the English alphabet.  Now, try it in Natalie's
>or mine.
>
>Chris

I hope this does not ruin your reputation:  but
BY GEORGE!  Mr. Chriss@cwu has got it!!!  Case closed.
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Subject:      Re: CALLING ALL STUDENTS OF RUSSIAN

*** Resending note of 04/08/92 22:53

to the steps of a dance.  We used to square dance a lot (*real* square
                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^

Execellent analogy!  And a big "Yellow Rock" to you Nancy!

Don, Plus Level Angel
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Date:         Tue, 7 Apr 1992 10:49:59 EDT
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From:         QXN148%URIACC.bitnet@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU
Subject:      RE: Guinea Pigs, Be On Alert

>Posted on 7 Apr 1992 at 01:55:44 by Uriacc Mailer (002033)
>
>RE: Guinea Pigs, Be On Alert
>
>Date:         Mon, 6 Apr 1992 23:55:00 MDT
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>From:         The Ronin <WHITERJ@MSCD.BITNET>
>
>Respondeth Dr. QXN148
>
>> Whatssa matta youze can't take a joke,
>
>     You mean I put new blades in the wood chopper for 'cusin Antony'
>for nothing?  Damn.
No, he'll use it for something.
Are we contribuiting to the inside jokes or does everyone follow.  Everytime
someone asks that soemthing not be done I find myself doing it.
Lisa
>
>The Ronin
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Date:         Mon, 13 Apr 1992 17:10:03 CDT
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From:         Frank Peters <fwp%CC.MSSTATE.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject: Re: List Moved: WORDS-L English Language Discussion G
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In article <9204131759.AA03612@Ra.MsState.Edu> "Natalie Maynor"
 <maynor%RA.MSSTATE.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU> says:
>> YOU feel redundant!  Lookit who I have to share my dot with!
>>
>> --Fwp, technogeek with a words-l t-shirt.
>
>Just think -- one of the early suggestions for the t-shirt was to have
>a picture of Bernardykins growing out of Ra.

In which case my signature would have been:

--Fwp, technogeek with a words-l t-shirt with a dog shaped hole in it.
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Date:         Wed, 8 Apr 1992 09:32:46 CDT
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From:         Frank Peters <fwp%CC.MSSTATE.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Hello???
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In article <9204080857.AA02716@isis.sics.se> torkel%SICS.SE@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU
 says:
>  Frank writes:
>
> >The rn program actually has two possibilities.  The basic rn program
> >uses no externally maintained database (except those maintained by
> >the usenet news server itself).  This limits its features but means
> >that it isn't dependent upon an external program.
>
>  Isn't it the case that rn (unlike nn) is not nntp-based? I use GNUS,
>which is very reliable but a bit slow (being written in Emacs Lisp).
>The possibility of using nntp to read news directly from a non-local
>or even overseas computer (there are a few sites that have such a
>generous nntp policy) makes for interesting excursions for the usenet
>fanatic.

That may be the case at your site.

All of the popular news readers (rn, trn, nn, tin, gnus) can be compiled
either to read news locally or remotely via NNTP (in the case of gnus
its an on the fly configuration).

On our system all newsreaders use NNTP.

I've played with gnus, by the way.  Its pretty nice and doesn't depend
upon an outside database...and is actually amazingly fast considering
what it accomplishes (and using interpreted LISP code to boot).  Alas,
I am not an emacs user.  If gnus were a standalone application I'd
probably be using it...even if it ran at the same speed.  I
particularly like the newsgroup selection mode.  In an X environment
slicker than snot.
--
Frank Peters  -  UNIX Systems Programmer  -  Mississippi State University
Internet: fwp@CC.MsState.Edu  -  Phone: (601)325-7030  -  FAX: (601)325-8921
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From:         Rashmi Murthy <rashmi%CBIS.ECE.DREXEL.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: ODDS & ENDS
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This discussion is fascinating, especially to someone with no
background in any kind of linguistics.  From my untutored
viewpoint, the following question:
If English does indeed change into a system of grunts which
is able to satisfy the "needs" of its speakers, is there some
reason why mathematics (as we know it today) should not also
evolve to adapt to this new grunt English?  We may not be able to
recognize it as "mathematics," but it would (presumably)
perform a similar role.  Or am I talking through my hat?

I find the above scenario easier to contemplate (albeit, with a
huge stretch of the imagination) than the alternative: that there
may come a time when humans would no longer need mathematics.

rashmi
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Date:         Thu, 16 Apr 1992 15:45:07 CDT
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From:         Anne Harwell <aharwell%PANAM1.PANAM.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (39
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>Stimpy is on.  How I wish DrewTV got VH-1..I never really liked it
>at home, but now I'd gladly trade MTV for VH-1.

A yuppie, screaming to get out.

-abh
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Date:         Tue, 7 Apr 1992 21:43:09 CDT
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From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor%RA.MSSTATE.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Fitting in
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> Hey!  I used to be a copy editor!  Does that count?  It proved to me

I was editor of the Arts & Sciences Newsletter for three years, so I
guess I can join the editor group.   I was also editor of the
Neighborhood News, a "newspaper" I created on notebook paper and
distributed around the neighborhood when I was about 8 years old.
I just remembered something else.  I was Society Editor of the newspaper
at Millsaps College for a year or so.  (Society Editor meant simply
writing a weekly gossip column.  I loved it.)  I guess I have more
editing credentials than I realized. :-)

> logged in as often as I am.  Guess I'll have to join the college kid
> clique.  Aimee, Aaron, Alec, Adam..funny how our names all start with
> A.  Does that mean anything?

Of course.  It means that only A students join WORDS-L.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
From: haycock@marley.think.com (Anne Haycock)
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Subject: Re: asterix
Date: 7 Apr 92 11:47:02
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Tushar fondly remembers:

   I have a notion that a relatively large number of puns is translatable from
   French to English. (Compared to, say, Swahili to English.) Don't know how
   true it is. The very first Asterix joke I remember "getting" is : Here
   comes the Roman army, and their name is legion. It killed me.

IMNSHO, the translators of the _Asterix_ comics deserve an eternal
memorial (make that a menhir).  They have got to be the most illustrative
representation of the complexities of the english language that exist
to-date.  From the blatant puns to the sideways screamers, these get my
vote for best comics, ever.  And, as I consider myself something of a
francophone, I have a couple of the french versions -- really shows how
much humour is grounded in a society and the socialization of a people.  It
is quite difficult for me to understand the non-obvious references and
word-plays since I am not a native speaker.  Ah well, I can still chuckle.

//anne//
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