HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Thu, 12 Nov 1992 13:32:46 EST
From:         Frank <ST403231@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Wayward Pulpit
Comments: To: words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu

>From:         "(Alec D. Plotkin)" <185422285@UCIS.VILL.EDU>
>
>Men and maybe women in Words-l must
>have beards. It is sorta part of the look.
>
Eeeeehnt.  Thank you for playing.  I had one for ten years.  Then
I shaved it off and now look younger than I did when I grew it.

Although I will allow that Neal, Marty, Dan, ggs, Bill Sj. and
a number of other male wordslers are bearded.  Still, I would
hazard a guess that more are not.

And this is not a circus.  No ladies need grow any beards unless
they want to.
>
>later
>
>bearded alec

Frank, the formerly fuzzy
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Thu, 5 Nov 1992 05:08:23 CST
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: The Democrats and Me
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu

>   Also, Clinton needs to jog more - he's umm, chubby.
>
> Yes, he's not undersized at all.

I heard that he gained weight during the campaign.  That struck me as odd.
I would have thought that weight loss would be more likely when living
under that kind of pressure with that kind of hectic daily schedule.  I
wonder what he was eating.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
From: jthomas@netsys.com (Jim Thomas)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Subject: Re: Danger
Date: 10 Nov 92 17:56:23 GMT
Organization: Netsys Inc.

In article <9211101247.AA04290@Ra.MsState.Edu> "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU> writes:
>> the Aaron episode, but I recall you were in the project-h discussion
>> which, while heated, did not involve the ad hominems that precipated the
>> latest discussion.
>
>Yes it did.  I called Graham and Anne paranoid crazies, I think.  :-)
>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
>
>P.S.  The list didn't fall apart then.  It's not gonna fall apart now.
>Let's hear it for Portland '93.

Conflict, even nasty conflict, can bring people together. RuthH's 
views and the anger they inspired are far better being brought into the
open than suppressed. Whatever my views about RuthH's views, I have a
better understanding of her, her life, and her being than previously.
I still oppose the political implications of her views, but the squabble
creates new understandings. Those who find such conflicts as something
to be avoided may fail to appreciate their ultimate value. Same can be
said for the project-h donnybrook. All sides felt to be the aggrieved party,
but the issues raised new questions and addressing them was valuable.
Natalie's right---if words-l is a community, then it should be recognized
that conflict is part of communal living. It's healthy and refreshing to
have people say what they *really* believe rather than hide behind
pseudo-civility.
 
Jim (Too much civility conceals much, reveals little) Thomas
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Thu, 12 Nov 1992 19:21:26 -0800
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: HELLO!
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu

: >I beg your pardon?  If I remember rightly, when I arrived here I brought
: >with me the impression that this was a place where people were rude, loud
: >and abusive, and often stormed off, unsubscribing in pique. Within a few
: >months, _it was_ :-)  Who converted whom, hmmm?

: That depends on whether you were here before, or after, Adam Conn ;-)

I arrived just as he stormed out, and assumed that mock-resignations
and bluster were part of the group dynamic, so I joined in and became
the first wordsler to unsub in disgust on his first day :-)

G
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Wed, 4 Nov 1992 17:34:00 EST
From:         blomberg cepeda <ST402747@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Did prop. 9 fail in oregon?
Comments: To: words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu

I agree with Alec about the country dodging a black eye in Oregon, but Colorado
passed a similar measure--what was the difference between these measures?
Does anyone know the Colorado margin? Was there also one of these in Fla.,
about which I have heard insubstantial rumors?


                               blomberg cepeda  st402747@brownvm
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Return-Path: <samant@cs.uchicago.edu>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Fri, 13 Nov 1992 11:24:52 CST
From:         samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      Re: Cut it out/ question

>>>Um, that would be "an ellipsis for the longer ..."--as opposed to an elision.
>>
>>All dashed hyperbole, I say.
>>
>>Tony H.
>
>And a zeugma to you too.

You fail to understand and the words-l test. A dashed hyperbole is just a
parabolic reflection of a dotted ellipsis.

tushar
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Thu, 5 Nov 1992 08:59:37 -0600
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Guess who I bumped into today
Comments: To: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>

On Wed, 4 Nov 1992, (Rashmi) wrote:

> I was in a restaurant this evening, and in walked Arlen Specter and his wife.

Ummm, was there a pubic hair on his coke can?

-abh
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
From: TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU (Blue eyes cryin' in the rain)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Subject: Re: Wayward Pulpit
Date: 12 Nov 92 15:18:00 GMT
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
X-Envelope-to: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.EDU
X-VMS-To: IN%"WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.EDU"
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.EDU

>A little gem from 1st Corinthians (11:14)

> "Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long
> hair, it is a shame unto him?"

>Oh dear.  Neal, I hope you're listening.  Off with his tail!  (I love
>arguments from nature.  Go tell it to the baboons...)

	Nature, of course, doth teach us no such thing.  I wonder how the
	author of I Corinthians explains Samson.

	The tail may be cut off sometime soon; I'm sorta mulling over whether
	to get rid of it, now that <everybody> has them.  When I started mine
	in 1988, it was quite the rarity.

	Let's open it for debate -- comments one way or t'other gladly
	accepted, though those from wordslers who've actually *seen* it will
	carry a bit more weight.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
neal    traven@pittvms                  Bitnet          412-624-0097 (office)
        traven@vms.cis.pitt.edu         Internet        412-624-0110 (fax)
                    "You're only young once, but you can be immature forever."
                                          -- Larry Andersen, relief pitcher
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Sat, 7 Nov 1992 14:37:00 CST
From:         "Jim Thomas (tk0jut1@niu.bitnet)"
 <TK0JUT1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Gangs on campuses

Steve adds:

   >Meanwhile, there's a rising tide of gang activity at the
   >university that employs me, to which the administration's
   >response has been a convex combination of deploring and denial.
   >So far, nobody has been shot in a gang fight on university
   >property.  I hope it stays that way, but right now the
   >administration has shown about as much vigilance as Captain Smith
   >showed steering his unsinkable ship through the North Atlantic.

Steve grossly errs:
The NIU administration, police, and local media clearly
recognize the gang problem both at NIU and in the community.
Local police have developed a special gang unit that works
closely with the community and the University. Much of the
"gang" problem (most of it, in fact) is from non-NIU students.
The university is working actively to find ways to oppose
*all* types of violence (which is hardly limited to gangs) while
simultaneously not reducing the rights of students. Actions
inlcude improved security, curtailing certain types of activities,
awareness sessions, workshops, and other actions to create an
awareness and reduce the problems. It would also be an error to
over-state the gang-related violence. When it occurs, it will
inevitably be dramatized far more than other types of violence.
A few years ago, football players (mostly white) were
consistently involved in violent acts around town. Far less was
made of their violence than is made of "gang" or "black" violence
today. Both types should addressed vigorously, but one type is
framed much differently than the other.

Racial tensions are not resolved by selective framing of issues
in a way that contributes to the problems.
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Thu, 12 Nov 1992 21:58:13 EST
From:         ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU
Subject:      Re: Clear the air
Comments: To: words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu

Posted on 12 Nov 1992 at 21:51:55 by samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
>>1). List Angel: Michael McMillan (?) named Karen this
>
>A good example of how my small point has been missed. Mem didn't
>NAME her that. The name was appropriated later.

My memory matches Anne on this one. I did not name myself this.
(I think someone wrote out the lyrics to Teen Angel.)

List Angel
From: PBARFOOT%SUVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Subject: teen talk
Date: 6 Nov 92 21:37:46 GMT
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU

Theresa,
 Thanks for the Teen Talk dictionary. I have 4 teens at home now and
I will check with them for accuracy, and regional variations. I am
learning Mohawk and starting to work on some Russian but I'll never
speak Teen ! (Well, never AGAIN).
                                                   Br Paul
From: rita@EFF.ORG (Rita Marie Rouvalis)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Subject: Cut it out/ question
Date: 12 Nov 92 03:15:04 GMT
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Comments: To: words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu

The next person on this list to randomly quote something I've said
in the past is setting his/her fine self up for a boot to the head.
It's as annoying as cat piss.

Frank might know this:  Olga, one of the women in my poetry class,
is looking for a word processing program that will allow her to
type in the Cyrillic (spelling?  Russian, anyhow) and print it out
on an IBM PC clone.  Anyone?

Rita
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Thu, 5 Nov 1992 01:28:29 EST
From:         "Tony @ Brownvm" <EL406045@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: jaywalking
Comments: To: words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu

Posted on 4 Nov 1992 at 20:50:29 by (Jim Thomas)

>I was busted in Seattle for jay-walking. I had no ID, was somewhat, uh,
>"substance influenced," and made the mistake of laughing when told what
>the offense was. The police, while polite, took jay-walking very
>seriously.

I was at a conference in LA a couple of years ago.  Sessions were split
between a couple of the "downtown" hotels and, while walking between them
with some colleagues, I saw a couple of police officers in heated conversation
with some other acquaintances on the diagonally opposite corner.

We assumed there had been a mugging or purse snatching or something, and
crossed over (along with ten or so others) to see what the story was.
Turns out three people were being ticketed for jaywalking - crossing
exactly the way we just had!  Each new arrival was warned severely
about LA not being like New York or other places "back east", but of
course the growing crowd just attracted more people (an attractive nuisance ?)
and soon the cops were just telling everyone to move along.  The three
originals did get tickets for $50 or so though.

Tony H.
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Subject: Re: One simple (?!) question
Date: 12 Nov 1992 07:24:11 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, jthomas@netsys.com (Jim Thomas) says:

>In article <WORDS-L%92111120535532@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)" <TA0SHK1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu> writes:
>>: neo-pagan business
>>
>>As opposed to worshipping Wotan, Thor, and the other gods dwelling in
>>Valhalla?
>
>Uh, is that spelling correct? I think you mean Thon and Wooten.
>
More like Wooster, actually, and his competent sidekick, Jeeves.

>
-- 
		###	Ruth Hanschka, the Nethead    ###
			- ap290@cleveland.freenet.edu
	      Where anything can happen, and it usually does
From: gtoal@RACHEL.IBMPCUG.CO.UK (Graham Toal)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Subject: Re: Establishment (was legislating)
Date: 12 Nov 92 02:20:09 GMT
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu


	>Actually, Carlyn,

	Add that one to your typo list, Graham(e). :-)

When I built this bsd box I didn't have enough money left over fr
a proper keyboard or monitor, so the $20 keyboard I boght
drops lots of characters unless I press the keys very hard.

I've almost finihed the on-the-fly typo-correction code thogh :-)

G (sometimes I can't be bothered going back over it to fix them...)

PS particularly on the top row of the keyboard fr some reason.
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Organization: Current Science Tel: +44 71 323 0323 Fax: +44 71 580 1938
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Mon, 9 Nov 1992 19:02:11 GMT
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: The word strac
Comments: To: Words-L and the Bandwidth Hogs <words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu>

On Mon, 9 Nov 1992 08:38:00 HST, "Michael E. Macmillan" <MACMILLM@EWC.BITNET>
 wrote:
> >     I have something to say about the word "strac" (from US military

> I know this word in one of its incarnations, and I can't wait to
> hear what you have to say about it.

Oh, it *couldn't* be...  could it?  When I was in the British Army the
unofficial explanation of WRAC (Women's Royal Army Corps) was 'Weekly
Ration of Army Cunt'.

You wouldn't try to foist something as nastily sexist as that on us,
would you? :-)

G
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Wed, 11 Nov 1992 22:49:02 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: crib sheet
Comments: To: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
              11 Nov 1992 15:03:42 EST from
              <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>

On Wed, 11 Nov 1992 15:03:42 EST Rashmi said:
>
>I've heard the same story from two separate sources - smacks of UL to me.
>One of the alt.folklore groups might know if it's one.
>
  I'd also vote for UL, just like the guy sticking his fraudulent
bluebook int he stack and the prof not knowing who he was, etc.
etc.   etc.

   But....assuming that the prof had said some standard size piece of
paper, say 8.5x11 inches, it would be damn hard to glue/tape said
paper into a mobius strip unless you were allowed to cut and tape it into
a 2.125 x 44 incher or something.  Yes, the area would be the same....
but if _I_ were the prof I'd just tell this theoreticla bozo I said
ONE side of 8.5x11, NOT ONE side of 2.125x44....so I'd dispose of it on
that grounds alone....not following directions.
                                                   dan
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
X-VMS-To: WDS
MIME-version: 1.0
Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Wed, 11 Nov 1992 16:25:31 -0500
From:         RKESSLER@RCNVMS.RCN.MASS.EDU
Subject:      Word query: liminality
Comments: To: Words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu

Fellow Words-Lers: Being an editor has turned me into even more
of an all-work-and-no-play Jack (although last weekend I did see
Harvard beat Brown on the gridiron). I apologize for not keeping
up with the list and for barging in now with a real word
question.

I'm editing an article about the Ga people in Ghana and their
harvest festival, Homowo. I'm trying to rid the piece if jargon.
I'm stuck on the word _liminality_, which occurs near the end of
this paragraph.



Two days before the Homowo feast, Ga villagers return
to their ancestral homes in coastal towns. In Accra, a
kpele priest ritually clears the road for the returning
villagers. The arrival of the villagers inaugurates a
period of social harmony in which, on pain of death
from avenging ancestral shades, debt payments cannot be
demanded, oaths cannot be sworn, and legal proceedings
cannot be initiated. These restrictions on socially
disruptive activities reinforce the liminality of the
Homowo festivities.

What is an acceptable synonym for _liminality_ here? Any ideas?

Let's not junk up the list with word-related matter. Send
directly to me:   Rkessler@RCN.MASS.EDU

  --Best, Rod
Rkessler@RCN.MASS.EDU
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Mon, 9 Nov 1992 20:13:15 -0500
From:         "(Agnes Kruchio)" <kruchio@EPAS.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject:      Re: One simple (?!) question
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu
              "ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU" at Nov 9, 92 7:54 pm

>
> Posted on 9 Nov 1992 at 18:29:52 by Judith E. Schrier
> >>>Didn't I once read a suggestion among elders of the feminist
> >>>movement that a "croning ceremony" would be an ideal rite of passage
> >>>for menopausal women -- anointing them as learned elders or some
> >>>such thing?
> >>
> >>Are you allowed to
> >>be a crone w/out having been a mother?
> >>
> >Yes. (That's a fiat from the senior mother on the list)
> >However, you must submit evidence of equivalent experience,
> >such as being a teacher...and you really *must* be a woman...
>
> I've been talking this up to people at school today--a friend who teaches
> mythology is going through a difficult menopause, and I'd *love* to do this
> for her.  She was in favor of the concept. I'm not sure what one *does* at
> a croning ceremony, but maybe we can find out.  Ooh, ooh, this is almost as
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

			what else but a <crowning ceremony>???

> good as Amazons, for older women. :)
>
> Karen
> The Cradle Robber
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Tell me more!!! (I'm looking to copare notes...)
Agnes

>
From: ST402747@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU (blomberg cepeda)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Subject: Re: your mail
Date: 6 Nov 92 00:11:50 GMT
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Comments: To: words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu

You think LBJ was bad--I shook Gary Hart's.



                   Yech.



                        blomberg cepeda
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Wed, 4 Nov 1992 13:59:34 EST
From:         "(Rashmi)" <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject: Re: Adventures in Democracy
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu
              "ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU" at Nov 4, 92 11:55 am

> Karen
> who shocked herself yesterday by voting for Libertarian and Green
> Party candidates

Does anyone know how well Marrou and the Libertarians did?

rashmi
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Sat, 7 Nov 1992 15:38:00 EST
From:         xxuucp@ATT.ATT.COM
Subject:      UUCP Mail
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu

UUCP request att!D.att01fe265 to mhwpa!D.att01fe265
failed on system 'mhwpa'.
Reason for failure:
	remote system can't create temp file
	remote file system is low on free space
From: tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Subject: Re: The Democrats and Me
Date: 5 Nov 92 05:12:36 GMT
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Return-Path: <tushar@math.uchicago.edu>

>rashmi, List Evaluator of Candidates' Attractiveness

This is the same person who makes accusations of being a pooh-bah
(whatever that means) at the drop of a hat. Just thought I'd mention
it.

tushar
From: ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Subject: Re: Help on a word?
Date: 6 Nov 92 00:59:08 GMT
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Comments: To: words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu

Posted on 5 Nov 1992 at 19:04:38 by Dan Lester
>   Of course some kids don't make it through the training for some of
>the locales, as they have to take intensive language training at the
>language school in Provo, and they have to do well enough to proselytize
>in the indigenous language.....and quickly.

This language school sucks.  I told one kid I tested who returned from two
years in Japan that he ought to sue them.  Another friend says his Italian
training was also quite bad.  But Italian is easier to "pick up" on your
own.

Karen
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Wed, 4 Nov 1992 15:28:41 -0600
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: WHTMINYC Part 6
Comments: To: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>

On Wed, 4 Nov 1992 tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU wrote:

> as she is spoke". Discard it immediately and buy a dictionary. THEN look
> up the words. Yes, again, Harwell. I have a hunch it will surprise you.

Go ahead, Tushar, enlighten me. You're dying to. Fan out your plumage!

-abh
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Fri, 13 Nov 1992 09:14:35 EST
Reply-To:     "Ruth M. Hanschka" <ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu>
Comments:     Warning -- original Sender: tag was NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Comments:     Resent-From: GUBERT@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Comments:     Originally-From: "(Ruth M. Hanschka)"
              <ap290@CLEVELAND.FREENET.EDU>
Comments:     Warning -- original Sender: tag was WORDS-L@UGA
From:         GUBERT@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject:      Re: Groundrules

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
In a previous article, GUBERT@UKCC.UKY.EDU () says:
>Groundrules?  What groundrules?  There are groundrules!
>
What about, Thou Shalt not post in no-caps, or with the caps lock on?

RH>Do either, and the readers will think either a)you don't know how to type,
RH>and are a standard usenetter [not complimentary], or b)YOU'RE AN IDIOT WHO
RHLIKES TO YELL [also uncomplimentary].  Just about anything else goes, though.

RH>  ### Ruth Hanschka, the Nethead    ###

     You are obviously from a generation who does not know about terminals
     that are ALL CAPS and cannot be changed.  I still know people who have
     to work with such dinosaurs so I would NEVER make such an uncomplimentary
     assumption.  In fact, there are alot of such prejudices among 'netheads'
     that I consider to be offensive concerning alleged 'netiquette'.  As far
     as I am concerned, simple courtesy and respect for others is the only
     prerequesite for participation -- altho there are exceptions to this
     [you know who you are] :->.

     As for the Thou Shalts -- I'm not much for prescriptivism.

JAG
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
X-VMS-To: in%"words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu"
MIME-version: 1.0
Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Thu, 12 Nov 1992 09:59:53 -0500
From:         RKESSLER@RCNVMS.RCN.MASS.EDU
Subject:      Re: Tushar on the Ga
Comments: To: words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu

<<and (very insufficient) descriptions of Homowo...

Well, if I ever get the issue out, the SEXTANT will probably cover
the Homowo ground pretty well, in a liminal if not subliminal sense.
Marty--the information you posted about stools clarified something
else for me. Thanks.  (something potentially misleading in the
article about "chiefly stools") You guys are amazing, as ever!
  --Rod

Rkessler@rcn.mass.edu
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU