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From:         Blue eyes cryin' in the rain <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Regional usages
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.EDU

>While in the Navy, I had a roommate who would use the word "Leave" in place of
>"Let", such as, "Maybe they will leave us go home this weekend."  No idea how t
>his would get started, but probably in much the same way as the "in/on" questio
>n.  Just something to think about.  Y'all.

	Maybe he was looking to get some leave.  Or to be 'on leave.'

	Actually, isn't that construction somewhat Germanic?  Where was the
	roomie from?

[greetings, newbie...]
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From: karsten@netcom.com (karsten)
Subject: Re: The D-words
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 01:40:17 GMT
Organization: Karsten's Bit Bucket
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maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU ("Natalie Maynor") writes:
> That last option has always struck me as the strangest of all.  Why
> would anybody endure the horrors of things like prelims and never
> finish the degree?

They might come to the conclusion that they can no longer justify
wasting effort working toward a degree for which they have no respect
and decide the only reasonable response is to stop and get on with
their lives.

--karsten

(This is probably not a universal explanation...)
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From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
Subject: Re: The sole of a new machine
Reply-To: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 21:47:22 GMT


In a previous article, maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU ("Natalie Maynor") says:

>> >The arrow keys work fine on vi.
>> But nothing else does.:-)  You can still keep it.  Actually, the version my
>What doesn't work?  I haven't found anything about vi that doesn't work --
>except when I had turbo turned off and found that almost nothing online at
>19200 without turbo worked very well.  Even then vi sort of worked -- it
>just acted strange.

Exactly.  I've read the command lists for vi, and can get it to work after a
fashion, but that's about all.  The vi is always looking for colons while my
fingers are hardwired for command codes and function keys.  Must be the old
southpaw coming out in me again.:-)  Two or three different editors are no
problem, but adding the 4th [vi] just doesn't seem to compute....  If you
think nothing works at 19200 w/o turbo, try doing anything at 1200 via
telnet.<yecccch>
 
-- 
It's Ruth the NetHead, back from the [virtual] dead
	- ap290@cleveland.freenet.edu
fighting for truth, justice and static-free lines
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Date:         Wed, 12 Aug 1992 07:29:20 EDT
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      On
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> On Tue, 11 Aug 1992, PBARFOOT@suvm.bitnet wrote:
> > Reading some local newspaper stories from the 30s recently,
> > I was noticing that people were referred to as living "in"
> > such and such street. I am used to hearing "on" such and

The clue here is that these are from the 30s; the fact that you are
in Syracuse, MY is also a clue.  You are misreding the articles, I
think--those are not street names per se, but neighborhood references.
You do see this usage in old films--I think "Marty" has some of this.
I don't know where this usage ends; I don't think it is exclusively
east coast.  I've read books from the 30's that took place in Chicago
and I think they used this.  It is *not* modern usage.

> This is interesting.  I don't know the answer, but while we're in the
> "in/on" vein, I'm wondering about the use of "standing in line" and
> "standing on line."  I would say "in line," but I hear more and more
> people saying "on line."

This used to be the one sure way to tell a NYC-er...this seems to be
quite persistent.  I've never heard it from the mouth of anyone else.

Karen
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Date:         Mon, 17 Aug 1992 09:44:22 EDT
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Comments:     Originally-From: Karen Kay <LL23@NEMOMUS.BITNET>
From:         GUBERT@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject:      Men and Feminism

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
Anne Harwell, my friend, expressed the point of view that she
doesn't like it when men call themselves feminists.  Thereupon,
she got jumped on by two women, at least--my list-reading may
not be up to date. My response to this is: GIVE HER A BREAK!!!!

I sat through months of this on the Women's Studies list--as a
corollary to whether or not men should teach Women's Studies
courses.  I am quite sympathetic to this point of view, and
becoming more so the older and more experienced I get.  I no
believe self-declared feminists without because I've discovered
that a lot of them are clue-free.

This is a point of view that a lot of men and women share.
Many women feel that men should not be involved in feminism any
more than many African Americans feel that whites should be involved
in civil rights.  Both are very touchy situations, with a 'superior'
group involving itself in the matters of an 'inferior' group.

Karen
P.S. My friend Cole calls himself a feminist sympathizer. I like the
resonances!
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What you really mean is that you want deference.  It's the same old
argument -- you can't understand because you're not <whatever>.  The
point is that there can be no understanding of social issues without
understandings of all components, not simply some ideologically
defined <correct> view.  We must find a way to build groupings which
include all -- not US and THEM.   What was that childhood homily:
...but love and I had the will to win, we drew a circle...


JAG
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Date:         Thu, 20 Aug 1992 14:00:35 EDT
From:         Rashmi Murthy <rashmi@CBIS.ECE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: animals
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              92 2:04 pm

> I just *love* it when all you cannibalistic phudds start tearing each other up
> over your degrees (or lack thereof).
>
> -abh

And I just *love* it when the subject of geek/nerd comes up (and it
comes up periodically) and everyone claims to be one.  Buncha wannabees.

rashmi
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Date:         Thu, 13 Aug 1992 13:44:30 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      RE: Gender

>>      Are there languages that use natural gender?  I dunnow.  As

>How about Modern English?

>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

I supppose--to the extent that some nouns and pronouns are marked
for gender.  On the other hand, ships occur as 'she' as well as
it.  In any case, in English, words may or may not be marked for
*sex*, not grammatical 'gender.'  That is, it is not a
*grammatical* mistake to refer to a man in one sentence and refer
to him as 'her' in the next, is it?  It's a lexical mistake--or
at least completely different from tacking a feminine ending on a
Russian verb that has a 'masculine' subject.

    So I guess the question becomes is there such a thing as
'natural gender.'   Gender is just what we call it these days.
As Karen noted, the G(r)eeks could have just done called
'genders' alpha, beta, and gamma (especially since that is how
they counted.)  Nice question for each language how the concept
of 'gender' maps onto natural sex--or lack of it.  One of the
infuriating things about going from Polish to Russian or the
reverse is that as similar as the languages are, many many nouns
that are feminine in one are masculine in the other.  And as far
as I know, it is impossible to predict when it is going to
happen.  And there is the further question of grammatical form
vs. grammatical agreement--e.g. mezczyzna in Polish is 'man'--
feminine in form requiring masculine adjectives and verbs.  Is
that a case of 'natural gender?'

   Apropos definitions, Nemerov's 'Rope's End' comes to mind.
Anyone know it?  The last line's a kicker--in the end, this is
all crazy man's work.

    Ain't langauge a scream?


--Mka

Entropy is degrading
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From:         RKESSLER@RCNVMS.RCN.MASS.EDU
Subject:      Re:chicken shit
Comments: To: words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu

> What other urban creatures do you see?
   Exotic breeds of dogs, sparrows, pigeons, an occasional pet rat
or snake (on the shoulder of a Harvard Sq. punk).
    Rita and others will confirm that mice speed around between the
tracks of the Park Street Red Line stop in Boston.

I've been thinking of other animal-related expressions whose
meaning risks becoming unanchored in our experience: cock-eyed,
pigeon toed, hen pecked, stampeded, bridled, rat-eaten, flea-bitten,
rabbit ears, kid gloves, crowed, cowed, buffaloed, up a tree.

(The other day I went to the building supply store for chicken
wire. It's now referred to as _hex netting_.)
-Rod
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Date:         Tue, 18 Aug 1992 18:48:27 EDT
Reply-To:     Graham Toal <gtoal@ed.ac.uk>
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Net aliases and paranoia
Comments: To: Words-L and the Bandwidth Hogs <words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu>

On Tue, 18 Aug 1992 08:47:35 EDT, GUBERT@UKCC.UKY.EDU wrote:
> Hmm....a posting on gonad-*ology*....Is Gubert an incarnation
> of Aaron Dickey, who also used the -ology suffix in bizarre
> fashion?????

And is MKS that guy (what was his name?  Something with 'fish' in it,
wasn't it?) who sounded *very* similar when he joined us last year.
Remember the one who was soliciting folks to join him at the New Orleans
Jazz Festival?

G
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              <DBFABAK@CFRVM.BITNET>
From:         GUBERT@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject:      Re: Help

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
*** Resending note of 08/18/92 23:53

>It is going to the cats, as it should - you mangy flea-bitten garbage-sniffing
>mutts have been in control for too long!  It's time for a change!
>Nethead, aka the Ruth Hanschka, hath enscribed herein, a message

I will gladly send you an autographed copy of one of my favorite books -
"101 Things to do with a Dead Cat".
        /\_____/\
       -/ ''''' \-
        {''o o''}  Muffy, the only good cat is a dead cat!
        {  \^/  }(except of course Seigi, Muffy the Cat, Maxmillian and
       ////'''\\\\ friend, Lil' Bit and *maybe* Qunicy)
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My 30+ cats will be happy to share their "1001 recipes for murderers
of cats" --
JAG
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Date:         Mon, 17 Aug 1992 07:27:52 GMT
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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
 <DBFABAK%CFRVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Why I Couldn't Find the RAM!

*** Resending note of 08/17/92 07:22

>> If you don't need a faster machine then don't buy one.

>Spoilsport.

>--karsten

>If I can ever notice any delay it isn't yet fast enough...

Well now I have another viewpoint.  I have learned that with this antique
8088 I can catch a few winks between responses ...a feat I could probably
not master on a faster machine ....I do need my afternoon naps :-).
From: rashmi@CBIS.ECE.DREXEL.EDU (Rashmi Murthy)
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Subject: Re: alumni associations
Date: 20 Aug 92 03:32:52 GMT
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              20, 92 1:30 am

>
> I can't believe it took the Alumni Association that long to find
> you...

Yup, they're good at tracking people down.  The amount of mail
I receive from our Alumni Assoc. *pisses* me off (and I haven't
really graduated yet).  Plus, they send this annoying stuff via
snail mail, paying postage, while I've a post box on campus to which
the junk can be sent free of charge.  Of course, they should really
email it, and save some trees.

> Jill
rashmi
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Date:         Wed, 12 Aug 1992 18:19:00 LCL
From:         Carol_Carmick@BEAV.INTERSOLV.COM
Subject: Re: Regional usages/genteelism
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+gentry

     But I'm not.  By a long shot.

     Carol "Hell, I haven't even landed yet."
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Date:         Mon, 17 Aug 1992 01:13:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      McGuire McSchmire
Comments: To: English Language Discussion Group <words-l@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>

Just a note to anticipate any objections to the reference to
Dorothy McGuire in WHTMIQR10 (or was it 11?).....  little -ggs
was wiggling his tushie *not* like Dorothy McGuire but like
Dorothy Malone in _Written on the Wind_, which movie was set
in the oil country of Tulsa Oklahoma, thus denigrating the
novel, which was set in North Carolina and was in fact the story
of the R.J.Reynolds family, and of which -ggs, collector of first
printings that he is, has a first printing first edition complete
with beautiful dust jacket emblazoned with a mellow tobacco leaf.
He will show it to any wordsler who comes to visit him and leaves
her/his smokes outside because tc won't stand for puffing in the
HSH of -ggs and tc.
--ggs (very fond of both Dorothies but <cognizant of the fact> that
Miss McGuire *never* wiggled her tushie....  too much of a <lady>...
and that Miss Malone *always* wiggled her tushie, tart that she was
in that little sports car among the oil derricks....and giving her
daddy a heart attack because she hit paydirt once too often...)
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Date:         Tue, 18 Aug 1992 14:17:00 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK%IUBACS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      More *very* weird stuff"

Something really weird is going on out there--I just got five
rejected messages back from the listserver--all exact copies of
the original "weird stuff" post.  I only sent it once.

-Mka
Aware that there are certain entropic possibilities here.
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From: gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal)
Subject: Weird 
Distribution: world
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Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 13:20:44 +0000


In article <k=!n67l.karsten@netcom.com> karsten@netcom.com writes:
>A friend of mine works as a consultant for several small banks in
>Chicago.  He charges $60-100 an hour to set up their PCs and
>networks.  Last year he got a panicky call that one of their file

Someone over here wants their US office connected to email.  Does
your friend offer uucp feeds locally in Chicago, or know someone
who does?

G
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From: ak743@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Doretta Hanschka)
Subject: Re: Self-correcting (why not try proofing?)
Reply-To: ak743@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Doretta Hanschka)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 04:42:24 GMT


In a previous article, dorisann@TENET.EDU (Doris Smith) says:

>> work* today and no longer get to login until evening.  School starts
>                                         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> in the daytime and have to wait until evening.
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>Ruth!!! Get busy on the head; I need it back!!!

I already told you, it's beyond hope.  Someone must have taught a few hundred
too many frosh; it's that sort of damage. The head looks like someone pounded it
against a brick <mental> wall once too often.

>
-- 
Nethead, aka the Ruth Hanschka, hath enscribed herein, a message
	ap290 and ak743 , both of the Cleveland Freenet
			Here Be Dragons
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Date:         Thu, 20 Aug 1992 06:52:17 -0500
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: EMERGENCY
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Comments: cc: Multiple recipients of list WORDS-L <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>

On Thu, 20 Aug 1992, Natalie Maynor wrote:
> When is Tushar supposed to be back in Chicago for "official" purposes
> (i.e., for things directly related to his program at U of C)?
>    --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
>
> P.S. If the message expressing worry about his whereabouts was a joke
> of some kind, it wasn't a funny one.  Rashmi's response leads me to
> believe that it probably wasn't a joke.

I agree...if it was a joke, it was definitely unfunny.  I didn't have the
impression that he intended to be away from Chicago so long.
ndh
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Date:         Tue, 18 Aug 1992 15:11:00 EST
From:         Blue eyes cryin' in the rain <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU>
Subject:      greetings from Dartmouth
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Hi folks,

After a few false starts when the Dartmouth system didn't understand the node
names of the Pitt machine, I'm telnetted to home!  A mere 493 messages wait to
be viewed...

I'm off through them for a half-hour or so, then off to a lecture.  See you
again sometime soon.

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Date:         Sat, 22 Aug 1992 16:39:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Pleasant Discovery
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> Kind of a sad anniversary of sorts today ....five years ago today my dear
> second wife was buryied ...I know...I should not reflect on such things..
> not really fair to Joyce and Dawn....
>
> So thanks to my WORDS-L friends.  It helped when you had no way of knowing.
>
>                             Peace,
>                                   Don

I disagree, I think it is proper to reflect on such things, which were
very much a part of your life at one time.  The 33rd anniversary of my
first marriage is coming up this week, and I am always very aware of
that date, and of the date that my first wife died after we had been
divorced for seven years.  I sometimes visit her grave, because my
seventeen years with her were very much a part of me, and produced
the first four of my six children.  I do not, however, share all this
with my present wife, because it is difficult for her to understand
my feelings about my past with another woman.  So, I reflect on these
things with friends who do understand.
--ggs
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Date:         Fri, 14 Aug 1992 09:41:55 EDT
From:         BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject:      Re: Not being taken for an American
              14 Aug 1992 06:15:42 PDT from <pwiebe@ECST.CSUCHICO.EDU>

>In restaurants they manage to cause scenes of undue proportions.

  Steph, tell at least one anecdote in this vein.  I need a good laugh this
  am.                   --brad
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Date:         Thu, 20 Aug 1992 12:55:02 CDT
From:         Absolut Bandwidth <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Geekefaction
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu

>offends no one.  Not possible on this list, actually, since Le
>Pig wakes up offended.

Attention: this is a subject on which Entropy has no empirical evidence.

-abh
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From:         GUBERT@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject:      RE: Gender

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>Reactionary?  Maybe.  I can be a flaming feminist too--when the
>argument makes sense or the issue feels right.  And I don't have

What is it about men who identify themselves as feminist that makes me want to
<puke>?

Alan Alda
Dustin Hoffman
Phil Donahue

...and so on.


In the nicest way possible,
-abh
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Perhaps you just <cant stomach> the argument?

JAG
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Date:         Wed, 19 Aug 1992 08:35:00 EDT
From:         ktw@HLWPK.ATT.COM
Subject:      Re: Republican convention
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>Can someone tell me why Barbara Bush and M. Quayle are
>addressing the convention?  I thought it was their husbands
>that were running for office.   Do the wives of the Pres and VP
>always get to speak at the convention?

They're there to talk about Family Values.  In keeping with The
Traditions That Made Us Great, the Republicans view women as the
true preservers of hearth and home who keep the kids fed and
dressed while their husbands go out and fuck their secretaries.

Ken
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From: bayla@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Bayla Singer)
Subject: Re: List Wars, The Saga
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 21:37:15 GMT



>>Hey, ausbrook. don't post private messages to
>>the list unless the author gives you permission.

>Dear, sweet Jenna,

>I'll post what I bloody well like and suffer your reproaches if I
>must.  There *is* a place for rudeness in the world.  I pick my

>-Mka

--I must say I too was perturbed to find a private message (though nothing
to be ashamed of) reposted to the Net, and simply decided not to send any
more off-List communications to someone who did not abide by the generalyy
accepted conventions of the List.  

Nobody can enforce <rules>, but wee certainly canuse our own judgement to
determine our own behavior towards someone who does not respond with the
courtesy we expect of each other.

--bayla