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Date:         Tue, 8 Sep 1992 12:22:28 EDT
From:         "Judith E. Schrier" <PRIMATE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Proficiency Exams
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>When did they take it, and who graded it?
We took the Subject A exam during the something-like 10-day
period before classes started. It was at the beginning of the
period. I suppose it was graded by grad students. Other things
that happened during that period were the Physical Exam, meeting
with a counselor to choose classes (we never saw these people
again), some social events, various exams for getting into
restricted classes... As it happened, I got sick on the
third day, went to the Physical Exam with a 102 degree (F!) fever
(passed with no trouble), and went home to bed, where I stayed
for the next 2 weeks, enjoying hives and a 105 degree fever.

>  Finding out how it's done at other places can be
>useful -- if those places are comparable -- i.e., if they're state
>universities with a wide range of students from all over the world, some
>with valid reasons not to be able to come to an orientation session
>a month or two before classes start.
>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
UCLA had a varied student body, but most of us were from Los Angeles.
Still, they didn't call us to campus until 10 days before classes
started.

judith
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Date:         Wed, 9 Sep 1992 09:40:36 EDT
From:         Bill Merrill <ST401601@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      re: Why I Teach
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>  haven't done it in a long time, but I've been thinking about one
>  of those teachers, in particular, recently.  I've toyed with the
>  idea of writing to him, and you've decided me.  I will.

Good for you, Jill. One of my kids from when I taught high school
has kept up a correspondence with me over the past nine years, and
it has made all the difference in the world. Bill
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From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK%IUBACS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Disclaimer

>   Thank you.  I agree that there ARE real bastards out there.....and they
>ain't me.

>[Expletive deleted]

That's what they all say.

-Mka
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Date:         Wed, 9 Sep 1992 20:10:32 -0500
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Family Tree
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>
> This is lovely, Gilbert, but I thought we were *cousins*...I think it's
> Natalie who's your other sister.  Unless, of course, there's an
> *inheritance* involved. :-)
> ndh

Nancy dear, you are forgetting the <branches> of the tree that have weak
knees, and three of them at that.  _ggs is just trying to maintain some
kind of <decorum> and show only the one-kneed branches.  If he were to
show Natalie as his sister as well as his mother, what *would* people think?
Doris
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Date:         Fri, 11 Sep 1992 00:57:00 CDT
From:         "tk0jut1@niu.bitnet Jim Thomas"
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Subject:      Augmentation

   >Which reminds me to ask, am I the only one on the list who
   >distinguishes 'argument' from 'argumentation'?

I've always understood "argument" to be the content (premises
and conclusions) and "argumentation" to refer to the style of
presenting them.

Jim (But then what's "augument") Thomas
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Date:         Tue, 8 Sep 1992 09:00:14 EDT
From:         "Judith E. Schrier" <PRIMATE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Why I Teach
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>> But what about making people who can obviously already write take
>> freshman comp?
>
>They don't have to take regular comp.  One problem, however, is in
>identifying those people.  A small school can have elaborate processes
>to examine significant writing samples.  Larger universities (including
>relatively small ones like this) find it almost impossible to do that,
>given the numbers and the registration timing.  Taking a student's word
>that she/he "can already write" doesn't work.  Students' self-assessments
>are often quite ludicrous.  So are high school grades sometimes.
At UCLA, in 1954, when there were something like 13,000
students, incoming frosh took the "Subject A Exam", a two
hour test, including a one hour essay on a given subject.
My year it was, "Compare two cities". Those who failed the
exam had to take Subject A, "Pre-freshman English". The
rest took English 1A, "Freshman English". Once the Subject
A people had passed Subject A (folklore had it that engineering
majors could take it again and again, until they passed), they
moved on to English 1A.

judith
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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
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Subject:      Re: The wonders of telecom

*** Resending note of 09/11/92 12:16
From: ak743@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Doretta Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: Thank you!
Date: 12 Sep 1992 05:17:47 GMT
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In a previous article, DBFABAK%CFRVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu () says:

>>Thanks to each and every one who has sent me messages.  I am so touched
>>by all of your good wishes that I feel like crying.  And I thought I
>>didn't have a friend in the world!
>
>>Evelyn
>
>Well, I'll bet you have friends you didn't even realize!  Great that
>you are back!
Took the words right out of my mouth, Don.  And a bit of advice, don't make
any major decisions without first ingesting your mood elevator/flattener
-outer.  [go up, not down!]  My poison is caffeine in various forms...

>Don, AKA in some quarters as JM!  (could be worse!)
What's a JM?  Jungle Modifier?
 
-- 
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:         Wed, 9 Sep 1992 22:17:23 -0500
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject: Re: Family Tree
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>
> > Hey, am I this "dgtr" thing in the family tree representation?  And if I
> > have an Uncle Giggles, where's *my* blue Miata?
> >
> > --Susan
>
> Not until I get to bounce that little <grand-niece> on my .....
> Uh.. oh.... can't say that.
> I am IRTN.
> --ggs (<one>'s favorite uncle...)

It's all right, giggles...Patricia did *not* inherit the family's peculiar
knees...her knees are just fine!
ndh (who is, of course, totally objective about baby Patricia...and if you
believe *that*...)
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Date:         Thu, 10 Sep 1992 12:46:28 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: wordsler birthdays
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> 	 Bernard (April 15, #?
11 in 1993 -- real years

> 	Is it time to place a birthday list in WORDS-L's FTP area?
Good idea.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Tue, 8 Sep 1992 21:36:35 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Show-Bottom (was Gleanings 58)
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> 11) To play show-bottom (Gilbert)
> A childhood game of my own invention (or at least the term,
> since I have never known anyone else who called it that)

We called it "playing doctor."
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Fri, 11 Sep 1992 07:35:00 MST
From:         "JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS"
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Subject:      Re: Stagecoach politics

"Republican cant"?  I don't think so, Marty...  Your Mr. Gatewood sounds
more like Alan Cranston to me!

John "Doesn't anybody here know how to play this game?" W.
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Date:         Fri, 11 Sep 1992 15:20:23 EDT
From:         Theresa Wild <TWILD@URIACC.URI.EDU>
Subject:      clambake pics

Sorry Ruth, knew I forgot something.  The fist week of school is
hectic.

 Theresa Wild
 P.O. Box 419
 Kingston, RI 02881

         Look forward to seeing them, thanks.


Theresa
twild@uriacc.uri.edu
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Date:         Sat, 5 Sep 1992 05:36:14 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Aspiration
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> 	seemed kind of extreme.  I think Graham and I first met when discussing
> 	huckles and things on a.e.u. a couple of years ago.
> 	   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
>
> You *did* remember!  *Hug*

Of course I remembered!  I remember you well from a.e.u.  That was back
during that time that I hung around fairly often there and for a fairly
long time.  I went back to a.e.u. a couple of weeks ago and got very
briefly involved in a thread of discussion but tired of it quickly.  The
arguments are still going round and round the way they used to, with the
majority of people arguing vehemently about things they don't understand
and misunderstanding the one or two overly earnest, highly boring people
who do know something about linguistics.  I had also forgotten how tiresome
it gets to read lengthy, pompous ramblings the first several screens of
which are quotations from somebody else's earlier lengthy, pompous, often-
nonsensical rambling.  Bbboooorrriiinnngggg place.  IMHO, of course.  One
of the beauties of NetLand is that different folks can find/use their
different strokes.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Thu, 10 Sep 1992 14:00:00 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK%IUBACS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Disinterested

1 Vote

Disinterested = unbiased
Uninterested = not interested

There is a difference.

-Mka
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From:         droby@NOVA.TCS.TUFTS.EDU
Subject:      Re: EMAIL TO MY SCREEN--VILANELLE
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              04 Sep 92 21:22:51 CDT." <9209042227.aa07615@Nova.TCS.Tufts.EDU>

Says Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>:
>Latest addition to my saved messages.
>Only one other contributor (John M Williams) is in that file, BTW.
>
>-abh
I've given up saving messages.  There are just too many gems to keep
them all and deciding between them got too difficult.  Also I probably
missed a bunch during my last time warp, when I actually gave up on
reading everything and just jumped back into present tense.
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Date:         Fri, 11 Sep 1992 21:22:27 CDT
From:         tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      Re: Zen

>No disrespect was meant toward Zen or Japanese culture. I made a bad joke.

Disrespect, hell. Zen happens to be full of inconsistent, false,
meaningless, idiotic, lunatic statements, all at once. It's total
nonsense, that's all.

tushar
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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 22:41:52 CDT
From:         tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject: Re: Toot Toot Tootsie, Good Guess (Was Re: Rhubarb Pie

>   *ROOOOOONG*  Trick question.  Correct answer is "1 to n, *depending on
>the starting point*, where n is the maximum number possible to arrive at
>the center of a virgin Tootsie Pop".  Confirmation, Tushar?

Which reduces the question to what n is, i.e. the original question.

tushar
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Date:         Wed, 9 Sep 1992 16:03:56 CDT
From:         aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU
Subject:      Re: Stop me before I eat more
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>Don't do it!  Don't do it!  Think of the terrible things the dentist will
>do to you!!!!!!!

That was yesterday <ow>. Today, my mouth is my own.

-abh
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> My hubby doesn't know a thing about e-mail or Words-L.  Bless his heart, he
> thinks I'm doing school work.
> Doris

You mean he doesn't say I just cant stand the way you *have* to
go read your e-mail you get so compulsive about everything you just
*have* to see what's there you can't go one entire day without going
to see what's there this is so disgusting it just makes me sick it's
like you just *have* to have it or you can't get through the day this
is clear evidence that you are really *sick* in the head I just can't
st.........
He doesn't say any of that?  What kind of spouse is he, anyway?
--ggs (who's heard it all....)
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Sorry, that was an e-oops.  It was intended only for Graham.  But, at least
you can see I DO NOT talk about anyone behind their backs.

                            Peace,
                                  Don
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From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Re[4]: the world's oldest profession

>   >     Carol
>
>   I just love it when you rattle your sabre.
>
>
>She's not afraid to draw blood.
>
>//anne//

Said like a true hemophiliac.  Believe me, *whenever* I address
something *to* Carol or merely *concerning* Carol, I shall be
sure to have my plasma bottles handy na wsjakij sluchaj.

Oh, the horror.

-Mka
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From: bayla@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Bayla Singer)
Subject: Re:grandma's chicken soup
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Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 22:49:26 GMT


>>Chicken soup (parve, for vegetarians), anyone?

>	Oh yes...  I'll have a double.  And if you could slip an extra knaidl
>	in there, I wouldn't complain.

>neal


Neal, would you prefer floaters or sinkers?

--bayla
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From:         "tk0jut1@niu.bitnet Jim Thomas"
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Subject:      IMHO

mgarber@DHVX20.CSUDH.EDU queries:

    >IMHO=?

Means "in my humble/honest opinion." Don't let the ogres on the
list bother you. Graham's just learning to walk upright and gets
nasty 'cause his knuckles still scrape the ground.
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Date:         Tue, 15 Sep 1992 11:50:55 EDT
From:         EL406041@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (59
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Posted on 15 Sep 1992 at 07:08:44 by Agnes Kruchio
>I wrote mine in a discipline completely different from the one I ended
>up in! Just goes to show you...
>Agnes

Shows you what?  I have 3 post-graduate degrees from two different
institutions, and never took a discipline exam.  They are offered in
very few disciplines.

Karen
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From:         "JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS"
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Subject:      Re: Too busy to play Words-l

>They shoot riffles, don't they?
>
>     --Rod

Only in kayaks.

JMW
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Date:         Tue, 8 Sep 1992 09:13:46 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Plumbing Woes
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Thanks to Torkel and Karen for toilet-knick-fixing suggestions.  I'll
explore them and will report results -- but probably not this week.  I
goofed off too much during the long weekend and am about to pay for it.
So what am I doing to catch up with work right now?  Reading e-mail, of
course.  :-)
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Mon, 14 Sep 1992 13:12:00 LCL
From:         Carol_Carmick@BEAV.INTERSOLV.COM
Subject:      Re[2]: SEX ID
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>	Quick!  All you single words-lers of the appropriate sex!
>Don't let this hot fish get a way..

     E-sex with a guy who can't find the Caps Lock key?  Please, Rita.
     He might as well be wearing oven mitts.

     Carol (who likes 'em grown up and literate)
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From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Why I Teach
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> But does it work?  When I took the second semester of composition that I

I probably shouldn't answer this question since I would hate to see a good
many people out of work.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Sun, 13 Sep 1992 12:43:00 MST
From:         "JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS"
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Subject:      Re: Gossiping about Natalie and prescriptivism

>I am complimented indeed, having never before been the cause of repeated
>visits to the same dirty restroom..

>-abh
I won't say it. I won't, I won't, I WON'T!!!

(Hey, it ain't THAT long until Christmas!), and a strained expression>

John pursed lips, bulging eyes, strained expression W.
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Subject:      Re: WHTMITL1

Greetings,

Don't stop now.  I'm waiting with breath 'bated.

Marty (who gets to start reading about Hungary next, and who has
Lucinda Williams wailing in the background)
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Subject:      Re: Plumbing Woes

Greetings,

Am I accurate in assuming that if Natalie and Ann switch jobs, Ann will
have to learn how to roast goats?  How do they get the goat into that
pit and under the tarp, anyway?

Marty
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Subject:      RE: Re[2]: A taxonomy of humor

>     By the way, Marty, I made the parenthetical comment about Fowler
>     in response to something Mka said -- not because I think Fowler
>     is one of those <bad bad people>, of whom everyone seems so eager
>     not to be one.
>
>     Carol

Was that way back in the days of gender and language?

Isn't a fowler someone who votes against Quayle this November?

Speaking of prescriptivism, read Fowler on will/shall.  It's a
scream.  (I shall/we shall=you/he/she/they will and vice versa.
Then in the conditional it gets very cute, not to mention
indirect discourse, where you use the form the original speaker
would (should?) have used.)

-Mka
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Date:         Wed, 9 Sep 1992 13:53:00 EST
From:         "Alec D. Plotkin 215-645-4366" <185422285@WILD.VILL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: hi, y'all
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Welcome back, Lisa.


later

alec
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From:         "Michael E. Macmillan" <MACMILLM%EWC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: New

>> Most topics are covered but, we revert back to ...
>should be
>  Most topics are covered, but we revert back to...

Actually, all that is needed here is

   Most topics are covered, but we revert to...

Michael E. Macmillan (macmillm@ewc)
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From:         "tk0jut1@niu.bitnet Jim Thomas"
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Subject:      Prescribing a prescriptivist alert

Gee--little did I know the quagmire advocating turning
disinterested students into interest ones would raise.
From Chambers': disinterest = lack of interest. That's what I
said, that's what I mean. An elephant's faithful (to language)
100 percent. (sorry, can't cite the source)--

Jim (where can I get this prescriptivist filled?) Thomas
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From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: EMAIL TO MY SCREEN--VILANELLE
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> >I like it!  Can I put it in ftp space?
> >   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
>
> No.
> tushar

I was afraid that was gonna be Tushar's answer.  <sigh>  I hope those of
you who wanted to keep it did so when you got it.  If not, send a note to
Bernardykins, who could probably be persuaded to forward you a copy.  Or
get it from usenet, where it is no doubt still available on most of your
systems.  Our usenet stuff stays here about three weeks.  Is that about
typical?  Longer than typical?  Shorter than typical?
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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<<Is this a *regular* student or one who was enrolled with
<<kajillions of probabtionary *if you do this...

The student who does so well with riffles is among the standard-issue.
He's not in any of the step-up programs, for example, and he wasn't
placed in remedial comp.

--Rod
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