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From:         "Aaron Dickey, The Happy Spore"
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Subject: Re: Understatement of the Year
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Tushar--

I dunno, I just clipped it, sent it, and it worked.  Maybe it has
something to do with the fact that I'm on a VMS, not Unix?

--Aaron
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From:         Tushar Samant <tushar%ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject: Re: Swedish cake mix

>                   With a Swedish dictionary, I came up with this
>     (provisional) translation:
>
>             Notice: The manufacturers are not responsible for the
>             effects of [any?] cakes baked with this mix by motherly
>             women active in international exchange of electronic mail.
>
>     The business about the missing dots is too subtle for me.
>
>     bog

Ha ha ha ha ha ! Thank you. After you expressed your doubts, Brad, I was
going to dig into the dictionary myself. That elektronisk post WAS kind
of shady.

Torkel is real slimy, man. Can he at least say what the dots are for now ?

tushar

PS Now's the right time to delve into vi veri veniversum vinus vici. Or
did you find that out ? Where is that guy anyway ?
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From:         The Ronin <WHITERJ%MSCD.BITNET@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
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From:         Bayla Singer <bayla@CASBAH.ACNS.NWU.EDU>

> ---But I should think that "multiplication by itself" surely has "to do
> with sex" -- and if it can remain "unchanged," avoiding the blindness and
> insanity usually invoked as consequences, then it will be potent indeed,
> and some operator!

     But this has even greater implications that Bayla implies.  For
"multiplication by itself" to cause it to remained "unchanged", then
this also implies not only the immediacy of the birth, but also the
immediacy with which it is ready to do 'multiply' again.  Further,
since the state is unchanging and constant, it must always be ready to
multiply.  No more headache problems.  An obvious boon to all
hermaphroditic kind.

The Ronin
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From:         Judith Schrier <PRIMATE%BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: sad thought
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>Does anybody know of any studies showing what happens when parents
>continue reading to children after the children know how to read?
>I'm wondering if that might in some cases deter the child's reading
>on his/her own.
>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
I don't know of any such studies. My parents stopped reading
to me once I learned to read, and I think (though I don't
really remember the time when I learned to read...I was 4)
that I didn't ask them to read to me anymore. My Papa
started telling me bedtime stories, though. He would make
them up, or he would tell me classical myths. Sometimes he'd
bring a piece of paper and a pencil, and show me how the
alphabet had evolved.

MANY years later, I told this to a psychiatrist, a fairly
rigid Freudian, and he thought my Papa was uncomfortable with
children (read, "me"), and had trouble relating to me! I was
horrified and dropped the shrink. Later had another one, who
was a behaviorist, and we got along fine. *SHE* liked my Papa!

Yes, I read a lot of stuff I didn't understand. We didn't own
a lot of books at home, but all went to the library at least
once a week and brought home "the maximum the game laws would
allow". What we owned I'd read over and over, once I'd been
through the library books, until I had them nearly memorized.
Apparently I'd learned to read by memorizing the books that
were read to me...I don't remember this at all!

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

>According to the heading information, Aaron sent his note from NYUACF, which is
>on Bitnet.  It is not to Aaron's advantage to subscribe to WORDS-L through the
>Internet.

Why not?  (I mean under ordinary circumstances, not during this recent
glitch.)  It is ordinarily very much to my advantage to subscribe to all
lists through internet rather than through bitnet.

> >Anyone out there know if this is just a temporary thing?
> No.  It is a 'feature' of LISTSERV or the mail routing systems or both.

Yes.  The nameserver at UGA has had a problem.  Surely it will be fixed.
I have experienced exactly the same internet problem you have.  It's
temporary.  I've subscribed to many lists through both bitnet and internet
many times during the past couple of years to test them.  Internet is
ahead of bitnet 99.99% of the time -- sometimes by DAYS.

> >Is it better to subscribe through Internet rather than Bitnet?
> Only if there is an Internet equivalent for NYUACF; I do not think that there
> is one.

All of what I've said assumes that you have a valid internet address, of
course.  Why do you think Aaron doesn't have one?
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         WERTSJ <WERTSJ%DIALOG%MCIMAIL.COM@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      re: flipping channels
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>There was a study last year that got a lot of media hype about the fact
>that if your 'average' two-parent two-children-of-different genders
>family watches TV, the father has the remote.  If he leaves the room for
>any reason, he passes it to the son, regardless of age (may be ygr. than
>dtr.)  It's sort of like weapons.  "Here's the remote, Joe, you take    watch
>good care of the womenfolk."

>My god, Rita, your family's normal! When I was at home, my dad shocked
>the hell out of me by handing me the remote even though 3 brothers were
>in the room.

>Karen

I have to admit...I get up and walk over to the cable box to change
channels.  The box controls which "flippin' channel" I watch, and
I think getting a remote would entail paying a fee ($something per
month), so I do without.  Even before I got cable, and my VCR
controlled the channel selection (it has a remote - and sometimes a
mind of its own!), I didn't flip channels.

When I go home (to my sister's actually), nobody flips channels, and
custody of the remote is not considered a big thing.  Actually,
sometimes we have to find it first (she has four small children).
When whoever is using it leaves the room, it usually just gets
deposited on the couch or the floor (this is why we have to spend
time finding it!)

Oh, well, I've always known my family is abnormal! ;-)

Jill

______________________________________________________

Jill Werts                 (wertsj%dialog@mcimail.com)
Dialog Information Services
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Date:         Wed, 8 Apr 1992 13:41:24 CDT
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From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor%RA.MSSTATE.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: CALLING ALL STUDENTS OF RUSSIAN
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> I think part of the advantage of Latin (with regard to grammar improvement for
                                                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

That, of course, is a social judgment.  The concept of "grammar improvement"
makes no sense linguistically.

>come from a home where good English was spoken, you just DON'T learn the
                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^
Another social judgment, not a linguistic judgment.

>grammar rules... you learn early on that you can get by with what sounds right:

That's what constitutes the rules of grammar.  If it sounds right to the
native speaker, it *IS* "right."  It's the rule.  The rules of grammar are
acquired without conscious effort by children at a very young age --
before starting to school.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         Anne Harwell <aharwell%PANAM1.PANAM.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      RE: Ben 'n Jerry's
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>araphernalia were for sale, including "1% for peace" bumper stickers.
>You can go on a tour of the plant for $1. We had Chocolate Chip
>Cookie Dough cones. Yum! Bill


Read the article about liberals by P.J. O'Rourke in the current American
Spectator. Really keeps that 1% for Peace crap in perspective.

-abh
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From:         "Aaron Dickey, The Happy Spore"
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Subject:      Re: words-l history

Frank--

From the moment I sent that message, I didn't get another piece of BITNET
mail for almost two days.  I really thought that some omniscient user had
issued some mass-KILL command on me or something. :)  It was quite
eerie.

I guess I could have gone through USENET, but my newsreader in
VMS is unbelievably slow, and it could have taken a good hour just for the
server to sort out the 700+ messages before I could have even begun to look
for responses.  I didn't have the heart to do it at 2:00 am.  I wouldn't
call it giving in, necessarily, you goose-stepper, you. :-)

--Aaron
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From:         "JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS"
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Subject:      Re: Understatement of the Year

This reminds me of something unusual I saw down on the border at spring
break:  Six coeds were stopped on the US side of the line and prevented
from crossing into Mexico!  (This by the US Border Patrol)  In my quarter
century of experience you could have a severed human head under your left
arm, a bloody Hudson's Bay axe over your right shoulder, and be running
South in a serpentine fashion under a fusillade of gunfire and still be
waved on through by the Guys in Green...  I've seen people denied entry to
both countries, but not prevented from leaving...  Wonder why.    ^^^^^

John "Where was I born?  Uh, lemme see - is this a trick?" W.

ps - I mean, it wasn't like the time I took pizza mix and beer into Alberta,
and the Mounties gave me a vocabulary test...  8-)
From: haycock@marley.think.com (Anne Haycock)
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Subject: Re: Understatement of the Year
Date: 13 Apr 92 16:06:53
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Carol admits:

   I have read that Cuban officials deliberately don't stamp the passports of
   Americans, so they won't have any trouble when they return to the U.S.

I have had two passports -- one diplomatic, one regular -- two reasons: 

1) I travelled as a diplomatic "dependent" since my father was (is) a
foreign service officer and that's the passport they (the oh-so-wise State
Dept) gave me; and

2) My mother realized that in some instances you need two passports to
minimize hassles traveling from country to country -- ex: Israel to Iran --
when you're traveling between countries unfriendly to each other (Just a
stamp from Taiwan would have barred you entry into Hong Kong).  Also, a dip
passport could've possibly increased the liklihood that we (my sister or I)
would have been picked out as "hostages" should there have ever been a
hijacking etc. on one of our trips to-from home.

As murky as it may be, there are reasons travel bans and advisories are
issued for particular countries.  Unless one has first-hand knowledge of
the safety and advisability of traveling to a "banned" country it would
probably be best just to stay home or go somewhere else.

//anne, giving her $0.02 and a little bit more//

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Date:         Fri, 17 Apr 1992 13:27:00 MDT
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From:         The Ronin <WHITERJ%MSCD.BITNET@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: e m forster

Demandeth     Evelyn <R3EJD@AKRONVM.BITNET>

> On Fri, 17 Apr 1992 10:04:15 EDT Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster said:
> >     We must exclude someone from our gathering or we
> >      shall be left with nothing.
> >
> >           -A Passage to India-
>
> An unnamed lurker threatening to omit someone from our ranks?
> Step forward and identify yourself, you blackguard!

Evelyn,

     Anonynimity does not mean luker.  My header included the following:

> Comments:     <Parser> E: Mail origin cannot be determined.
> Comments:     <Parser> E: Original tag was -> FROM: the uga buga
                                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> From:         Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster <POSTMASTER@UGA.BITNET>

     I doubt it was a lurker who did this, and am not even certain that
the term blackguard is correct (depending on just who did this).

The Ronin
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From:         The Ronin <WHITERJ%MSCD.BITNET@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: bonus points?

From:         Steve Portigaleth
                            ^^^

>   Dr. T. Ronin:  if you're going to quote me, why don't you quote the relvant
> parts, like the next paragraph where I stated that on this list, with all
> it's cleverness and originality, there's no point in such bonuses.  And of
> course I *was* being facetious.

     Because I did not find that paragraph to be relevant to my (also
facetious) posting.  You gave one reason not get bonus points, I gave
one as to why you wouldn't get them this time.  Of course, it could be
pointed out that we aren't using the phrase in the postings, only as the
title of the thread.

> Dr. Steve

> Hey how come I didn't get "eth'ed"

    Happy now?  You have been "eth'ed".

The Ronin
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From:         Carol Goodson <CGOODSON%UGA.bitnet@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: TV
              10 Apr 1992 00:24:37 MST from <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>

>Is there any other way?  I don't even OWN any pencils.  Pens or nothing.
>
>dan in potatoland, whose biological clock is telling him to go to bed

Ah, wonderful... another pencil hater....what IS it about writing on nice
white paper with beautiful black pens... like Faber Castell, my favorite in
the "right price range" department....
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From:         GUBERT%UKCC.UKY.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU
Subject:      wimbledon

Arthur Ashe was the first black *male* to win at wimbledon.
Ever hear of Althea Gibson?
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From:         "815 Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980"
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Subject:      Re: econometrics

: Challenge, guys -- explain that in english understandable to any
: educated person without reference to discipline terminology or
: jargon.

The original challenge was to prove that there is a cheapest way
of producing a given amount of output.  In economics we use a set
called the "input requirement set" to describe those combinations
of inputs that produce that given amount of output.  It is a closed
set because we believe that there are some input combinations that
do not permit us to produce the given amount of output -- and we can
always identify some combinations of inputs arbitrarily close to any
such combination that also do not permit us to produce that output,
which makes the complement of the input requirement set an open set,
and the input requirement set a closed set.

The arguments are explainable in plain English, but they just take
a little longer.  Tushar and I have been sparring about the fastest
way to prove the theorem.

Steve Karlson

Isn't "lifted tack" discipline terminology or jargon?
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>Keep in mind that a large number (the majority?) of the most active
>participants on the list right now are relative newcomers.  I think
>that says something important about the ease of entry into the in-crowd
>of WORDS-L.
   >--Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
     >Old-Timer
     >Subscribed to WORDS-L the day it was born

God, what is an old timer???  I joined up in November 1990!  I guess
that makes me something of an antiquity here among some of the other
antiquities (YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE!).

Ken,
slouching toward Bethlehem
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Subject:      Lenny and Quincy

*** Resending note of 04/08/92 21:53

>>      Quincy, Erotic
>>
>>           -, /|
>>            O.O
>>          =(___)=
>>             U
>>

        /\_____/\
       -/ ''''' \-
        {''o o''}    Now there is one cat I did not like!
        {  \^/  }
       ////'''\\\\   Muffy
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From:         Carol Goodson <CGOODSON%UGA.bitnet@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      The National Academy (again)

Last week, Natalie questioned my recollections of some
information gleaned from the text used in my History of
English class.  Although I don't have the message anymore, I
posted something to the effect that the reason why we don't
have an academy to regulate the English language, is because
it goes against the grain of the American spirit, and
further, dictionaries have pretty much come to serve the same
purpose anyway.  She said that the author couldn't have
written that.

I finally dug up the book, *A Biography of the English
Language* by C.M. Millward.  Following are a few quotes; I
will let others judge the accuracy of my inferences.

"To the modern speaker and writer of English, the idea of a
national academy that would legislate standards of
English...probably seems either ridiculous or outrageous.
However, during the ...seventeenth and ...eighteenth
centuries, there was a strong movement in favor of just such
an academy for English...Even during the height of agitation
for a national academy, it had its opponents...Others felt
that its authoritarian nature ran contrary to English notions
of liberty...." (p.  209)

"... Within a few years, the establishment of a national
academy to legislate for all of English became permanently
unfeasible.  The English-speaking citizens of the newly
independent United States were both too feisty and too
insecure to accept docilely the linguistic authority of a
body created and staffed by their recent enemy.  Nor did John
Adams' proposal for a home-grown American Academy meet with
any widespread enthusiasm."  (pp. 209-210)

"Somewhat more successful...was the American Academy of
Language and Belles Lettres founded in 1820 by the grammarian
and author William S. Cardell...Despite the support of a
number of prominent people...the Academy was opposed by such
influential figures as Thomas Jefferson, who believed that
such an organization would inevitably try to fix and
legislate rather than guide and to develop." (p. 263)

"In summary, no attempt to establish a national academy...has
been truly successful...in...the English-speaking world.  To
a large extent, the authoritative dictionaries, beginning
with Johnson's dictionary and continuing with the Oxford
English Dictionary in Britain and Webster's dictionaries in
the United States, have served as a substitute for a national
academy."  (p. 264)
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From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.bitnet@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Cool Beans
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Might this be related to 'tough beans'?  Which means more or less "too
bad, like it or lump it".

Karen
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From:         droby%NOVA.TCS.TUFTS.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU
Subject:      Re: nouns
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              10 Apr 92 10:02:35 EDT." <9204101119.aa19427@Nova.TCS.Tufts.EDU>

Says Janet Teuber <C0229%UNIVSCVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>:
>
>And since you mentioned "memoize" it reminded me that in word processing
>manuals I keep seeing "to bold a text".  That one really bothered me,
>but I couldn't come up with a succinct substitute except "to highlight".
>My co-worker complained that since it was referring to "bold" as an option
>on the WordPerfect template that "to highlight" didn't work as well as
>"to bold".  I guess in that context it's not much different than saying
>"to F6 a text".  I (grudgingly) conceded.

To embolden?
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bog--

Have you tried ROT13? :-)

--Aaron
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>MTV hasn't been good since 1987, and never will be again.  They're too
>much into showing off their "cool" technology and their "cool" VJs
>--Aaron

I know.  My biggest TV hate is that stutter effect they use--you
know, when there's like a half-second pause before the frame changes.
It's very irritating to watch.  Plus, they play no music that I like.
The only times that I watch MTV is when I have friends over, or when
I'm logged in and can't find a decent CD to listen to, or when Ren &
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.

--Adam (ahartfie@{drew, drunivac}{.bitnet, .drew.edu})
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