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Date:         Tue, 7 Apr 1992 18:18:45 -0400
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From:         Steve Portigal <stevep%SNOWHITE.CIS.UOGUELPH.CA@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: bonus points?
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That's not fair.  I want royalties.  I propose a new system whereby
BWP bonus points can be given out (though some method to be determined
later) for good phrases, retorts, etc.

Of course, on this list, that'd be just about everyone.  Okay, idea
nixed in mid-development.
^^^^
Nothing to with Richard, Otis, or Mojo.

Steve
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From:         "Aaron Dickey, The Happy Spore"
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Subject:      Re: sad thought
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They aren't having trouble enforcing it here.  They're taking a hard-
line attitude: you break the dress code, you get punished, period.
The parents love it: they only have to buy one or two uniforms, and
that's it until their children grow out of them.

--Aaron
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From:         Anne Harwell <aharwell%PANAM1.PANAM.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (39
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>on.  They lost their honesty, and they'll never get it back.


Honesty? I laugh you to scorn!

-abh
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From:         Lobstrosities Unite <CHRISS%CWU.bitnet@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: CALLING ALL STUDENTS OF RUSSIAN

>But just so no one is led astray, social judgements are not neither right nor
>wrong.  They are conventions that society has decided, consciously or not, to
>apply.

And just so no one is even more led astray, the first sentence should read
"...neither right nor wrong."

Chris
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Date:         Tue, 7 Apr 1992 23:26:00 EDT
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From:         "Aaron Dickey, The Happy Spore"
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Subject: Re: A solution to all BWP problems

Well, actually, it was more of a joke than anything else, though the concept
of a occasional online thing might be fun.

--Aaron
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From:         bad boy <FDOLEZAL%UGA.bitnet@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: ODDS 'N' ENDS
              15 Apr 1992 21:34:23 GMT from <gtoal@CASTLE.ED.AC.UK>

On Wed, 15 Apr 1992 21:34:23 GMT Graham Toal said:
>In article <9204150744.AA14221@isis.sics.se> torkel%SICS.SE@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU
>writes:
>:Graham writes:
>:
>:  >Natalie's meaning has been perfectly clear all along.  She concludes
>:  >no such thing.  She was saying that if human culture degenerated to
>:  >such a state, there would be nothing wrong in the language paralleling
>:  >it by reducing to a system of grunts.
>:
>:  You're failing to take into account the course of the argument. I have
>:emphasized that it has not been suggested by me that there is anything
>:wrong with a system of grunts.
>
>
>I'm failing to *understand* the course of your argument.  You keep
>saying the same thing over and over without making the meaning
>any clearer.  Could you perhaps rephrase your argument differently?
>
>G
Dare I eat a peach?  o well, here goes:
And I say that the system of grunts would be *perceived* in the same way as the
present system of blah blah blah....unless everyone in this lang group had a
neurolingectomy. Tne complexity of this lang would shift from themorphophonemic
to the syntacticosemantic.  Of course, this is an argument from genetics and
biology....i.e.  our grammar is biological, not cultural.
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From:         Tushar Samant <tushar%ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Tarmac rugrats

>> I thought it was an example of how you used to stutter.
>
>I said exactly the same thing in a direct note to Ken.  Great minds
>and all that -- right, Adam?


Hey, that is my schtick.

tushar
From: haycock@marley.think.com (Anne Haycock)
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Subject: Re: Brazilian gleanings? -> Erin Go Bragh
Date: 14 Apr 92 11:13:24
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In-reply-to: Tushar Samant's message of Mon, 13 Apr 1992 22:42:51 CDT

Tushar whines:

   "Begorrah" is another phrase which stands alone. You can say these
   phrases only if your name is Pat or Mike.

   They are exclamations. My guess is that "begorrah" means "by god".
   When is the Erin go bragh explanation coming ?
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Well, I thought it had already been gleaned.  It means "Long Live Ireland".

Now you know.  Write it down and impress your friends on St. Patrick's Day.

//anne//
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From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET%UGA.CC.UGA.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Understatement of the Year
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> Interesting - I thought it was dictatorships and other totalitarian
> countries that restricted their citizens' right to travel...
>
> Tony H.

I don't know about your passport, but mine has a list of countries in
fine print in which my passport is not valid.

Karen
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From:         BGRISSOM%UKCC.UKY.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU
Subject:      Re: CALLING ALL STUDENTS OF RUSSIAN

This discussion of language rules, usage, and change is quite provocative.
I hope it continues.  A couple of observations:

Frank's example "We sung" was very apt.  It sounded quite natural to me
as I read past it until I remembered -- with conscious effort -- that the
past tense is "sang"; then it still sounded tolerable, even when I changed
the person: "I sung that song at the Opry last year."

I too have a fetish for correct usage of lie and lay, but I caught myself
yesterday saying to my father, "You better lay down for a while."  It took
me fully three seconds to realize the mistake.  I had to smile at my lapse,
since I would have corrected and teased Dad if he had said it.

This week's New Yorker (4/13) has the first of a two-parter on language
acquisition about the 13-year old girl (Genie of Temple City, CA) who was
kept in total isolation by her parents until discovered by authorities in
1970.  Looks interesting so far.

     (This issue also has a longish piece on Nippon Challenge.)

            --brad
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From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET%UGA.CC.UGA.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Ulan Bator
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> Is there a direct flight to Ulan Bator I can catch?
>
> Ken

Where is Ulan Bator again?  Mongolia?

Karen
who got back from Wash. DC last night and leaves for Memphis next
Sunday
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Date:         Wed, 15 Apr 1992 18:13:00 MDT
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From:         The Ronin <WHITERJ%MSCD.BITNET@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Elvis stamp

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

> I want the Elvis of 1955!

     We are talking about stamps, not another plaything for you
take home, Natalie.

The Ronin
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From:         The Ronin <WHITERJ%MSCD.BITNET@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (38)

Frencheth     Anne Haycock <haycock@MARLEY.THINK.COM>

Non, il s'appelle Panoramix.  Le petit chien s'appelle Idefix et le chef du
village s'appelle Abraracourcix.  Obelix s'occupe en fabriquant des menhirs
et Asterix est un vrai guerrieur gaulois!  Le fin.

     This is frightenening.  I took French for 12 weeks in seventh
grade (1968) before dropping the course because of the teacher and
haven't touched it since.  But the above paragraph makes since to me
and I don't read 'Asterix'.

The Ronin
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Date:         Tue, 7 Apr 1992 20:52:41 CDT
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From:         Frank Peters <fwp%CC.MSSTATE.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject: Re: A solution to all BWP problems
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In article <WORDS-L%92040720585121@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> "Aaron Dickey, The Happy
 Spore" <AXD7104%NYUACF.bitnet@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU> says:
>Has anyone here ever suggested perhaps setting up a permanent WORDS-L/BWP
>channel on IRC?  I could put my bot there, and thus have a nice place for
>everyone to hang out and stop wasting precious bandwith with all the lags and
>silly headers and such.  Whaddya think? :)

I think that the texture of words-l is remarkably suited to IRC.  It might
even be as much fun as InitGame.

Alas, many BITNET subscribers wouldn't have access to IRC.

--
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:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.bitnet@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Odder and Odder
              6 Apr 1992 06:34:29 CDT from <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

But, Natalie, will Bernard be ready for all those willing French poodles?

Evelyn
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From:         Judith Schrier <PRIMATE%BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: budget sayings
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> Does anyone
> know where these terms came from and is 'budget' the right word or
> a sound derrivative?
Just looked up "budget" in the Merriam-Webster Collegiate.
First meaning is a leather bag, or its contents. So the
terms seem to mean a person who is full of squirms, or
fusses, or whatever.

love, judith
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Date:         Sat, 11 Apr 1992 06:55:21 CDT
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From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor%RA.MSSTATE.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: sad thought

> the inadequacies of the public school.

Generalization alert:  *In general* my students who went to public
schools *tend* to be better than those who went to private schools.
That is especially noticeable for the ones from Starkville, Mississippi.
(That, of course, may be related to the fact that most of the university
faculty and staff, a pretty significant segment of the population of
Starkville, are staunch supporters of public schools.)
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         Melissa Miller <CCSMEL%UKCC.UKY.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Reading to each other

On Mon, 13 Apr 1992 23:28:34 EDT Rita Marie Rouvalis said:
>> > Our next project is reading _Don Quixote_ together in the original.
>> > Rita
>> In Spanish??  Wow!
>
>	It really isn't as impressive as it sounds.  Nico was born
>in Madrid, and I had 5 years of Spanish in high school...
>Rita

Well I hope that you have better luck than I did.  I speak Spanish and
tried to read it in the original with the help of a Spanish friend.
There were a great deal of words that neither one of us knew.  Of course
we weren't very patient, so we eventually just dropped it. !Buena Suerte!
                          Cheers,
                          Melissa
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Date:         Wed, 8 Apr 1992 23:55:50 EDT
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From:         Rashmi Murthy <rashmi%CBIS.ECE.DREXEL.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: econometrics
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              Apr 8, 92 10:35 pm

 Tushar's elegant prose deleted
>
>     We can only think of math.
>     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Tushar, did you mean "think in math," as in use the language of
mathematics to understand better the mysteries of this world we
live in, etc?
>
rashmi
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From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE%IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
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              9 Apr 1992 05:39:24 CDT from <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

On Thu, 9 Apr 1992 05:39:24 CDT Natalie Maynor said:
>I hope that's not a threat that you are going to divorce yourself from
>the list!!  Ra will forgive you for insulting it by getting it confused
>with a VM system.  Ra is very forgiving.  I abuse it frequently.
                                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
True  confessions time, huh, Natalie?

Hope Frank doesn't see that msg on Usenet

dan
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Date:         Wed, 15 Apr 1992 22:02:00 -0500
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From:         Jeff KELL <Jeff_KELL%ADMIN.UTC.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Hello again...

MWAAHHHH HAAAAHHHH haaa haa haa ha ha... (evil chuckle...)
I'm back!
Network relocated and physically dislocated and otherwise mislocated...
I'm here :-)

The Curmudgeon Club rides again!

/Jeff/  (temporarily) now at jeff_kell@admin.utc.edu
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Date:         Thu, 16 Apr 1992 05:43:03 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

>      Galmin predates me and I am unfamiliar with Tushar performing so
> elaborate a prank (not that I would it past him).  I also considered
> that this was someone pulling the list's leg, and patiently wait until
> the inevitable unveiling and declaration as such.  Until then, I hold
> to what I have posted.

Galmin and Tushar were both more interesting, especially Tushar.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         Tushar Samant <tushar%ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (38)

>I guess the s and k reversed because it's "better" to have the s first.

(Indian) west coast Christians say "axe" so regularly that I can identify
them just by that word. The other metathesis which is extremely common is
"flim" or "fleem" (for film). More rarely "pruss" for purse is used. I'd
say it is part of their language (the language is English.)

I know fellow-students who had to take great care to say "ask" whenever
they spoke. But sometimes "ax" just slipped out and that embarrassed them.

tushar
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From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor%RA.MSSTATE.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: CALLING ALL STUDENTS OF RUSSIAN

> The overwhelming value is that I've become a better writer and now
> that I understand what I'm using I can use it better.  How?  I dunno.
> Better vocabulary, more interesting complex sentence constructions
> (I'm the Swammi of Semicolons)..just in general a more advanced
> ability to use the language.  I'm not saying that anyone studying

Hmmmm.  I'm not at all sure how being able to identify direct objects
and indirect objects leads to better vocabulary and more interesting
complex sentence constructions.  I'll have to ponder that one.

> Not for everything;  I was making a generalization.  I didn't
> understand the time concepts behind the tenses, and as such I
> couldn't use them properly.

Were you unique in that?  I mean were you the only person that other
speakers couldn't understand (as far as time concepts), and were you
alone in not understanding what other speakers were saying about time?
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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              15 Apr 92 06:44:38 -0500. <9204151145.AA12514@sics.se>

  Natalie says:

  >Very quick reply.  I've gotta log off now.  The negation of a meaningless
  >statement doesn't strike me as baffling.

  Well, what I found baffling was the statement that we learn from
linguistics that the negation of the statement is true. Do you mean
that it is only from linguistics that we learn that the statement
"there is something wrong with linguistic change" (where "linguistic
change" has been carefully separated from "cultural change") is pretty
meaningless?
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From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood%TENET.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Childhood readings
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> >   Mr. Adam, Of course we read to you!!!! Don't you remember The Pokey
> >Little Puppy? among the other myriad Golden Books classics we treated you
> >to? Once you got older than those, you were up and running on your own, so
> >probably we stopped reading to you at the kindergarten age, as you remember.
>
> I have to admit that I have NO recollection of "The Pokey Little
> Puppy"...although I do remember The Silver Dandelion.

Adam,
I remember The Pokey Little Puppy...it was one of the first books I read
to my little brother...thank you for reminding me of it.  I don't
remember much about the story line (if any), but loved the illustrations.
ndh
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From:         Evelyn <R3EJD%AKRONVM.bitnet@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (39)
              13 Apr 1992 19:03:00 EST from <AXD7104@ACFCLUSTER.NYU.EDU>

A better role that Corbin Bernsen has is that of Q2 on Star Trek:TNG.
I'd like to see him in that role again.  BTW, does anyone know when Q
is going to appear on ST?

Aaron, I'm truly sad to see you go, and I hope you get a new computer
account, soon.

Evelyn
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From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE%IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Mail bar codes
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              7 Apr 1992 18:19:00 PST from <CHRISS%CWU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>

On Tue, 7 Apr 1992 18:19:00 PST Lobstrosities Unite said:
>Does anyone know how to read the bar codes found on mailed envelopes these
>days? Or at least where I can get the info.  The guys as the post office hadn't
>a clue.

I don't know myself, but I know that the American Philatelic Library
in State College, PA should have some info on it.  It is related to, but
separately incorporated, from the American Philatelic Society.

I believe I have seen a couple of articles on it in stamp journals, including
_American Philatelist_, the APS journal.  Would be worth a phone call,
anyway.  The library has a real librarian, and supports real research.

dan
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From:         Czarina Rita <rita%EFF.ORG@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Isaac Asimov
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>I just heard a rumor that Isaac Asimov has died.  Does anyone have any
>news about this?

        Yeah, I heard it on the radio this morning.  Died in a hospital
somewhere of complications related to cancer??? I don't remember the
details too well.

Czarina
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From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood%TENET.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: TV
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 I'm suspicious of people who buy the real TV Guide.
> I think what they really want to do is read about the soaps.
>    --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

...not to mention the horoscopes.:-)
ndh
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Date:         Tue, 7 Apr 1992 15:26:30 MST
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From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE%IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Disk quotas (was Re: away for a few days)
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              6 Apr 1992 13:52:17 EDT from <CGOODSON@uga.cc.uga.edu>

On Mon, 6 Apr 1992 13:52:17 EDT Carol Goodson said:
>all this bragging about who has the most blocks on his/her disk reminds me
>of the people I secretly laughed at in SDS (Students for A Democratic Society,
>in case you're not young enough to remember the '60s)--the ones who spent too
>much time bragging about all their arrests, instead of dealing with the issues.
Exactly....and just like the other running jokes....that is exactly the point.

Dr. Daniel W. Lester, Esquire, ex-Playboy, former Hustler, never an Advocate
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Date:         Mon, 13 Apr 1992 11:46:05 +0200
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From:         torkel%SICS.SE@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU
Subject:      Re: Swedish cake mix
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              11 Apr 92 23:00:50 -0400. <9204120312.AA04651@sics.se>

>Well, that was before I got active in e-mail, and
>the cake (was it Pepparkakor?) came out just fine.

  Aha, pepparkakor! According to folklore here (everybody knows it, but
nobody knows where the information comes from), eating pepparkakor makes
you a gentler, kinder person.
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