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From:         The Ronin <WHITERJ%MSCD.BITNET@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: CALLING ALL STUDENTS OF RUSSIAN

Claimeth      torkel@SICS.SE

>   Apart from this and his important practical work (the cracking of the
> German Enigma machine and the building of computers), Turing is best known

     I was under the impression that part of how Enigma was cracked
was that a British agent in Poland stole one around 1939 and sumggled
it back to the isles.  I will have to recheck my references on this
one.

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

>What?  "Children" is the plural of "child".  Nothing redundant about it.

The "r" is a plural marker, and the "en" is another plural marker.

>used as a word, is, nonetheless, redundant. "Sheep" is plural, *sheeps* is
>plural, and *sheepses* is plural.  A plural of a plural of a plural is
>certainly redundant.

It's true that "sheepses" has three plural markers rather than just two
like "children."  That had already entered my mind.  But I don't think
it requires more than two of the same thing to be redundant.
(Since I've *GOT* to log off now and can't rebut if anybody raises the
point, by three plural "markers" for "sheepses" I'm including the zero
marker as one.)

> >understand is about "their own system."
> >   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
>
> My English is not your English is not the whole of English.  Each user has
> internalize a system of English that does not entirely match with any other
> user of English.  Each user has his or her own system of English.

Each speaker has his/her own idiolect.  I agree.  I'm still not sure
what that has to do with the point you were making, though.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
     REALLY logging off now...
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From:         Judith Schrier <PRIMATE%BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: TV
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> And I don't buy it for the soaps.  I buy it for the program
> descriptions.  Sometimes I even do the crossword in pen.
>
> --Adam
Adam, you're a wimp. Real Illuminati do them in their heads.

love, judith
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From: bayla@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Bayla Singer)
Subject: Re: flipping channels
Organization: Independent scholar
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 21:05:17 GMT

I don't know what it is about channel-flippers, either.  We bought my
husband (the TVnik in the family) a fancy set where he could put a bunch of
"windows" on the screen and watch almost all the channels at once (we don't
have cable).  You can only hear one, but it's pretty easy to tell which
ones have interesting programs and which are showing commercials -- but he
*never* uses this feature, preferring the two-second flip-through that
drives me absolutely up the wall.  

I thought it was related to the Y-chromosome, since everything I've read on
the subject seems to indiate that it's a male thing, but if Tushar doesn't
like it, there goes that theory: he's very nicely masculine (we've met).  I
hope this comment doesn't cause him blushes -- but anyone who could sign
himself Mahalingam shouldn't blush that easily.  *I*, on the other hand, am
a shy and modest matron (a grandmother, remember, with a son just about
tushar's age) who can't *believe* she just wrote that! 

--bayla
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From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE%IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: childhoods...such as they were
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              9 Apr 1992 10:51:00 EDT from
              <BUHITELA%SUNYJCC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>

On Thu, 9 Apr 1992 10:51:00 EDT <BUHITELA%SUNYJCC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu> said:
>
>my personal favorite is "Magic Happens!"
>
   And I thought it was "Magic Scores!!"  and again...and again...and again...

which undoubtedly explains the AIDS....sadly enough....

sorta like easter eggs or pizza or birthday cake for me.....too much of a
good thing.

dan
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From:         Akio Tanaka <TANAKA%JPNSUT20.bitnet@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Gleanings (38)

Tushar wrote (2 Apr 92):

ts=> After replying to illegal gleanings (i.e. things gleaned out of a letter
ts=> not intended for the list) I suddenly realised this : Akio asked about ALL
ts=> mathematicians in my letter except Hironaka.

ts=> So I would like to ask Akio : Do you know about Hironaka ? In that case,
ts=> how ? I am always interested in knowing about mathematical nerds who are
ts=> known in the real world :-)

ts=> tushar
===========
Esteemed Tushar, Esq.,

Yes, I know about Heisuke Hironaka -- a mathematician and a Fields prize
and Japanese Cultural Medal winner.  He happens to have graduated from
a high school in a town close to mine in Yamaguchi-ken, where I was born
and went to school.

He taught at Kyoto University for a while and went back to Harvard.
It is my guess that he wasn't very comfortable in the parochial Japanese
groves of academe.  He was flamboyant.  He appeared on TV quite often,
where he talked about education in general and so forth.  He even did
a TV commercial!  I don't think he gave up on mathematics, but...
Anyway, he is eccentric and wonderful.

His wife, Wakako is now a member of the House of Councilors (against
the House of Representatives - we have a two-House system).  I believe
both his son and daughter went to Harvard, but, Tushar, what is the big
deal about this Hironaka's daughter?  I hope she is not acting like Ono
Yoko :-)

And, now, Gleanings - No. 38.  Thank you (bow).

Akio - would you believe I was called a math whiz at Central High,
York Pennsylvania-my Year Book says so - Tanaka/6 Apr 92/Tokyo, where
petals of cherry blossoms are falling beautifully and sadly . . .
==========================================================
 1) Louis Mayer/Pat Riley (Ken W.)
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10) CACM (Steve P.)
11) -Asterix- series (Aaron)
12) *Mojo*/*Otis* Nixon (Steve P./Neal)
13) Emanuel Goldstein (Ken W.)
14) Corva Coleman/Korva Koleman (Stu)
15) Skid Roper for Veep (Dan)
16) Colinus virginianus (Chris S.)
17) Shakti Gawain (Les)
18) X-Oracularities (Les)
19) PDQ (Graham)
20) The Difference Engine/Bruce Sterling/Jurassic Park (Anne Hr.)
21) Thpttt (smooch!) (Rita)
22) Oscar Zariski (Don R.)
23) U.I.B. (Ken W.)
24) To be between opportunities (Anne Hr.)
25) Paul Hornung (Emily)
26) Alfred Jarry (Les)
27) Button-box (Judith)
28) Dr. T. G. Boman (Ronin)
29) TQM (Dan)
30) Vanity plate/RGS GOOSE/D&RGW RR (Steve K.)
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32) LGYC (Steve K.)
From: haycock@marley.think.com (Anne Haycock)
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Subject: Re: Gleanings (38)
Date: 7 Apr 92 11:55:14
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In-reply-to: torkel%SICS.SE@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU's message of Tue, 7 Apr 1992 10:29:51 +0200

Torkel errs:

     Aaron writes about Asterix:

   > basically, it's set in ancient Greece, where
   >Asterix is this short little gladiator who gets into lots of
   >misadventures with his friends.

     You've been misled by a particular story. Asterix and Obelix are
   Gauls, and the basic story line is that they live in the one village
   in France that has not been occupied by the Romans (thanks to the
   magical potion brewed by the druid Miraculix).
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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.

//anne//
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Date: 10 Apr 92 18:57:09 GMT
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              10 Apr 1992 13:41:25 EDT from <LEAH@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>

>No flame intended (particularly), but this discussion reminds me of an item
>I read somewhere. A young woman was visiting her mother, and was in company
> with several of her mother's friends, who were moralizing about AIDS, con-
>demning those who have it, and expressing their strong view that AIDs was
> wishing to embarrass her mother, nor to continue in the silence that implied
>agreement, offered the suggestion that "Maybe AIDs is God's way of testing
>your compassion."

     ...wow, that's terrific... but I was expecting something like: "Well Mom,
why do you think I have it, then...?"
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From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE%IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      re: food
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              9 Apr 1992 18:13:00 GMT from <WERTSJ%DIALOG@MCIMAIL.COM>

On Thu, 9 Apr 1992 18:13:00 GMT WERTSJ said:
>>I went to a conference....  hope I haven't scandalized the other librarians
>>on the list!
   Most librarians are WAY past being scandalized...and those that can be
undoubtedly lost it here on words-l....or left in a tizzy.

>"stick-in-the-mud" group), so I think your point about drinking
>is correct.   The drinking, tho, was mostly off campus, and away
>from the library.  The food was intimately connected to work.
>**************************************************
>Jill Werts                 (wertsj%dialog@mci.com)
>Dialog Information Services
>   (...uh-oh, it's another librarian!)
>**************************************************

I agree that most librarians are HEAVY drinkers....and pretty heavy
eaters, too.   I represent that.  8-)
Just don't do either one any more, though.

and....I am still what of many duties does Jill do at Dialog....
Customer service?  Software design?  Marketing?   something else?

curiouser and curioser.....
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From:         Carol Goodson <CGOODSON%UGA.bitnet@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject: Re: words-l history
              8 Apr 1992 12:33:00 EDT from <ST401601@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>

Bill Merrill... I used to make up completely new personalities for myself and
spend the time during plane flights talking to my seat companion as if I were
that person....I just loved it, and had a hard time stopping, actually...like
an addiction... after all, I was never going to see that person again, right--
so why not have some fun...  Last night as I was going to sleep, I had the
fantasy of doing that on a list like this.... too late now.... wish I had
thought of it sooner, before getting involved. /cfg
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From:         Emily Horning <ECZ5EJH%UCLAMVS.bitnet@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: in-jokes and such

> (BTW, my undergrad degree was in math, but I am a librarian (altho
>  I'm not working in a traditional librarian position), so where do
>  I fit in the headcount?)
>
> Jill
> ***********************************************
> Jill Werts              (wertsj%dialog@mci.com)
> Dialog Information Services
>    (...uh-oh, it's another librarian!)
> ***********************************************

Well, well, well! Another librarian! We MUST outnumber all you economists by
now.
           Emily (Librarian & Sports fan)
           B.A., M.A., M.L.S.  (PhD.??-maybe......)
From: gtoal@castle.ed.ac.uk (Graham Toal)
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Subject: Re: Reflections on the matter of language change
Date: 17 Apr 92 01:05:13 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

In article <WORDS-L%92041523221946@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> FDOLEZAL%UGA.bitnet@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU (BORING) writes:
:what is so tedious about defining 'slang'.  the dictionary will not do
:in this case.  Why?  i do not want to be accused of tedium, so i will
:allow y'all to go about your business, as usual. but somehow, you
:mix highfalutin linguini talk with fuzzy terms.  the point is: does a
:linguist define SLANG the same as those books (which books) at the UGA
:library? BTW, dont be such a prescriptivist.


I refer you to "A dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics" by David Crystal.

You'll find what it has to say under "slang" most edifying.  BTW, dont be
such a cantankerous shit.

Regards
Graham
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Date:         Thu, 9 Apr 1992 05:21:26 CDT
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From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor%RA.MSSTATE.EDU@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.

I'm having trouble with this analogy.  How does language break down and need
fixing?  The part about wanting to fit in in a conversation with mechanics
is ok.  Knowing how to talk about English grammar is useful if you want
to fit in with a group of people who happen to be talking about that topic.
That's true of any subject, of course.  (One problem with fitting in when
talking about grammar would be exactly who was having the conversation.
Many people on this list would not fit in at all if they were in a room
full of linguists who were talking about grammar.)
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         Rita Marie Rouvalis <rita%EFF.ORG@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Deserving Flames
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              92 3:22 pm

	Obviously I didn't take my analogy far enough for the Ronin
or his Portilaciosness.  Now, horseback riding being a dangerous
sport, there are precautions to be taken.  I always wear a hardhat
(forking out the dough every few years when they design a new and
improved model).  When I start jumping fences high enough that a
fall could mean breaking my back (instead of just bruising it
pretty bad), I'll invest in the body suit things they have out
now.
	The point is this:  There is a clear cause and effect
link here.  Riding a horse is dangerous, therefore I take
precautions.  I don't fall off because I'm being punished by
God for my lifestyle.  I fall off because I'm engaging in risky
behavoir.
	Now, having non-monogamous sex is risky behavoir.
Precautions should be taken.  However, because our society has
chosen to erect a set of myths around the disease -- only
certain kinds of people get it, it's a punishment from God --
we have lost the clear cause and effect link.
	In truth, I don't fall off a horse very often (maybe
7 or 8 times in my entire 18-year riding career), but I wear
that damn uncomfortable hardhat every single time.  In truth,
you could probably sleep with a lot of people and only come in
contact with someone carrying the virus 7 or 8 times.  But if
you're going to engage in the behavoir, take the precautions.

Rita
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From:         Steve Portigal <stevep%SNOWHITE.CIS.UOGUELPH.CA@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Another Gleaner?
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Although Gleaning is probably become a (TM) here, what shall we call it?

Eth'd is not widely used anywhere but on this list, in fact it's not eve
widely used on this list.


The Ronin has pioneered the concept of quoting others in such a fashion:

Sayeth Albert
Spluttereth Francois
Exclaimeth Louise

and so on, all using the eth ending.  At one point I was quoted without
getting the eth.  I felt left out and complained that I hadn't been eth'd.

There you go.

By the way, I'm NOT an American and I don't live in America.  There is
a difference.

(although Rita may argue with me on this...)

Steve
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From:         the Freshman Scott Huddle <huddle%VTTCF.CC.VT.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Va Tech Commencement
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Jack Nelson, Pulitzer Prize winner, and DC bureau chief for the LA Times,
is to be Tech's graduations speaker.  I see him on PBS's "Washington
Week in Review", but don't know his political slant.

Raymond Marshall, secretary of Labor under Carter, will keynote the
graduate student commencement.  Marshall holds an endowed chair at
University of Texas at Austin, and got his PhD in economics (!) at
UC-Berkeley.

-scott (huddle@vttcf.cc.vt.edu)
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From:         Anne Harwell <aharwell%PANAM1.PANAM.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      RE: Gerund
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu

>What is a Gerund?  I can't remember.   LJG

It's the noun that results from appending -ing to a verb.

"Walking is good for your heart."
 ^/^^^^^^
 /
Gerund
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In today's Pittsburgh Press, in an article discussing the phenomenal success of
the movie Wayne's World, appeared the following item:

	"Not!" was first used in a 1978 "Saturday Night Live" "Nerds" sketch in
	which Steve Martin, as Chaz the Spaz, told Gilda Radner's Lisa Loopner,
	"That's a fabulous science fair project ... NOT!"

While I don't exactly remember that particular skit, it certainly sounds like
something that would have been said either to or by Lisa Loopner.  And it would
be in keeping with Bill Murray's Todd Delamuca too.

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

From:         CGOODSON@UGA.BITNET

> ***this is amazing news to me...in GA we have a network called PeachNET and
> almost all the units of the state university system are now connected to it...
> all you do it get the phone number of the closest college or university, and
> dial...from PeachNET I think it goes to SURANET, and from there, the world.
> I am re-appreciating the advantages of living in Georgia...there are many.

     I should amend my posting.  Auraria campus is paranoid about
others using their resources.  Denver University (private) allows NIX
to exist with it and there is SuperNET, which connects Colorado
colleges, government organizations and (some) businesses together.  I
have been told (but have never authenticated) that there are phone
lines for free telent access at SuperNET.

The Ronin
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From:         Carol Goodson <CGOODSON%UGA.bitnet@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Happy Horoscope
              10 Apr 1992 22:15:05 GMT from <gtoal@CASTLE.ED.AC.UK>

On Fri, 10 Apr 1992 22:15:05 GMT Graham Toal said:
>In article <WORDS-L%92041014563326@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
>CGOODSON%UGA.bitnet@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU writes:
>:On Fri, 10 Apr 1992 13:47:17 EDT Mark Susskind said:
>:>When I see the name 'Karen Kay', I have been thinking, "Oh, she must be in
>her
>:>twenties."  Then, reality sets in, and I feel sad.  41!  Many Happy Returns!
>:>
>:
>:
>:I am beginning to feel a little resentful about all these *men* expressing
>:dismay over Karen's age (41)... and it's not just that I recently turned 45,
>:either.... I looked forward to reaching  40 for years...and the past years
>:have been the best ever... I was right.
>
>
>If it's any consolation, some of us prefer older women :-)
>
>G
>(Toy boy of 31)


***That's my point!  I don't NEED consolation!  (but I know you meant well)
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From:         torkel%SICS.SE@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU
Subject:      Re: ODDS 'N' ENDS
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              14 Apr 92 14:14:46 -0400. <9204142039.AA12103@sics.se>

  Frank writes:

  >Or, to put it another way, "English," if it were still called that after
  >changing (gradually, to be sure) into a communicative system of grunts,
  >would still ba able to convey information between its speakers (or
  > grunters).

  I have no objection to this, or your other comments. But how is it
relevant to the question I raised?
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From:         Anne Harwell <aharwell%PANAM1.PANAM.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      RE: Gleanings (39)
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> 9) Neuromancer (Anne Hr.)


A recent review of Stephen King's _Lawnmover Man_ referred to _Neuromancer_ as
"cyberpunk scripture." I agree. Written by William (our father) Gibson,
probably one of the most influential books written in terms of shaping the way
we'll connect and compute in the future.

-abh
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From:         Bernard Chien Perro <maynor%CS.MSSTATE.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      That Cat Is Back...
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