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From:         Steve Portigal <stevep%SNOWHITE.CIS.UOGUELPH.CA@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Odder and Odder
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Okay I'll pick up the gauntlet on this one: Why is it more awful when
Arthur Ashe has AIDS than when anyone else does?

(this seems to be the politically correct response these days, consider
me your daily Devil's Advocate).

Sir Steve, former Canadian
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Date:         Wed, 15 Apr 1992 18:56:00 MDT
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From:         The Ronin <WHITERJ%MSCD.BITNET@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      RE: That sinking feeling

Sayeth        "815 Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980" <TA0SHK1@NIU.BITNET>

> It has been eighty years since RMS TITANIC had the collision with
> the iceberg.

     Aha.  That explains it.  The RMS Titanic is trying to reach Chicago.

The Ronin
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From:         droby%NOVA.TCS.TUFTS.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU
Subject:      Re: wps
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              10 Apr 92 09:32:11 EDT." <9204100936.aa19135@Nova.TCS.Tufts.EDU>

Says "Peter Larimer @ U.N.H." <P_LARIMER@UNHH.UNH.EDU>:
>> By the way, I also don't own a whip, but I really do need one as a prop for
>> a play.  Anyone know a good place to buy a whip around Boston?
>
>How about Washington St.
>
>Pete

Well, I think there are still a few places on Washington Street where you could
put a whip to good use, if you're into that sort of thing, but is there a place
to buy one?

- Don R, sado-masochist in rehearsal

(actually, I need the whip to help the stage manager keep 40 or so children
in line.)
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Date:         Thu, 9 Apr 1992 18:31:00 MDT
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From:         The Ronin <WHITERJ%MSCD.BITNET@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Pedant's Corner (was Russian speakers

Setteth Up    "815 Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980" <TA0SHK1@NIU.BITNET>

> Employment and Price Stability Act, and law and economics.
                                          ^^^     ^^^^^^^^^

     I thought it was laws that so many things uneconomic.

The Ronin, who appreciates Steve for setting up so many one-liners today
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From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.bitnet@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: sad thought
              15 Apr 1992 00:41:00 EST from <AXD7104@ACFCLUSTER.NYU.EDU>

In East Cleveland, the schools are starting a dress code based on the
uniforms of the Catholic schools.  This is to prevent children from
hurting each other over possessions and to try to stop gang activity.

Evelyn
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Date:         Thu, 16 Apr 1992 22:49:00 MDT
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From:         The Ronin <WHITERJ%MSCD.BITNET@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Top 25 News Submitters by User by number of articles for the
              last 2 weeks

Quoteth       Graham Toal <gtoal@ROBOBAR.CO.UK>

> :see their lifestyle.  You know, most people have experimented
> :with words-l, and most outgrow it, but that doesn't give us
> :any right to discriminate against those who don't, they can't
> :help it they were born that way.  It even happens in nature.

     I always looked at it as the WORDS-L regulars were the ones able
to grow rapidly enough to keep up with the list.  I guess one must be
patient with children such as the one Graham quoted above.

The Ronin

     And to think, Graham had a coming out and didn't invite any of us.
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Subject: Re: Ashe and AIDS
Date: 10 Apr 92 18:16:00 GMT
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I'm a journalism major, so I usually err on the side of the press in
every case.  But this Ashe incident left a funny taste in my mouth
too.  I can't believe that USA TODAY reporter actually just called up
Ashe's house to ask if he had AIDS. There's nothing we can do about it
short of amending the Constitution, of course, but I do feel that this
could have been handled in a somewhat more caring fashion.

I'm also AMAZED that the NYC medical community kew all about this for
years and managed to keep its mouth shut.  That's a modern miracle.

--Aaron
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Date:         Thu, 9 Apr 1992 08:31:00 PDT
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From:         Emily Horning <ECZ5EJH%UCLAMVS.bitnet@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      eoops extraordinaire

Well, I just realized I am a day off on the Pre-Clam Slam. It's been a long
week.          Emily
From: haycock@marley.think.com (Anne Haycock)
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Subject: Re: Gleanings (38)
Date: 10 Apr 92 08:19:36
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Ronin,

Methinks you misread Sir G's post.  

//anne//

   Asketh        Graham Toal <gtoal@CASTLE.ED.AC.UK>

   > Well, I'm *always* getting into trouble by ending sentences with propositions.

	What else would one end a sentence with?  My rules say that
   ending a senetnce with a preposition frequently leads to a sentence
   with multiple parsings (Sorry, no examples off the top of my head),
   but that it isn't a sin.  Just as using the passive voice isn't a sin,
   just sometimes inappropriate.  (Have never been able to convince my
   sister of this.  She *KNOWS* that passive voice is bad English.  I
   can't get through to her that if ti really is bad, how did it get into
   the language?)

   The Ronin
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From:         Bill Merrill <ST401601%BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject: Re: words-l history
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The list goddess reminisces about

>the evolution of an
>ordinary discussion list into the unique family that this list has
>become.  . . .
>How did this list turn into the strange and lovable entity that it is??
>That would make a truly fascinating history.

I think of words-l at times as an epistolary novel of which I am
a part. Where the characters are real people. Or are they? Bill
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From:         Rita Marie Rouvalis <rita%EFF.ORG@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Cool
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              92 9:25 pm

	Beansies!  I just won a t-shirt on the 'BCN Sex Palace.
Now before you all (Lobstrosity!) start jumping to conclusions,
I won it by stumping Bradly J. at Science Trivia with the
following question:

	Who coined the term "bug" in terms of computers?


Czarina
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Date:         Wed, 8 Apr 1992 18:10:00 MDT
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From:         The Ronin <WHITERJ%MSCD.BITNET@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: away for a few days

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

| > Discussing the fact that I didn't set 'nomail,' The Ronin predicted:
| >
| > >     I would guess 583 messages from WORDS-L.
| >
| > Well, not quite.  I did have precisely 583 messages in my reader when I logg
ed
| > on tonight, but a small but vocal minority were from other sources.  I'd
|
| Are you serious??  You announced it so calmly.  I find that creepily weird,
| even if they weren't all from WORDS-L.  Does The Ronin have supernatural
| powers??  Tell me, The Ronin -- exactly when am I going to win PCH Sweeps?
| I need to start planning my move to France.
|    --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

     I had not expected to hit quite that closely, though a later post
reveals that at initial login the count was 581 and the other two
messages had to rush to get there before the mailer was invoked
(probably they just stopped off to see a friend along the way and lost
track of the time).  I do have a reasonably good ability to rough out
approximations based on preliminary plans that hold through to the
finals.  I ascribe most of this to having to deal with engineers (and
their misconceptions about math) and a couple of professors who didn't
care what method I used, as long as 1) I was right and 2) I would be
right next time.

The Ronin
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Date: 12 Apr 92 17:27:59 GMT
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              11 Apr 1992 12:23:25 CDT from <tushar@ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU>

>PS Now's the right time to delve into vi veri veniversum vinus vici. Or
>did you find that out ? Where is that guy anyway ?

    I've asked a couple of Latinists about vi veri veniversum vinus
    vici and come up empty.  But I still fear that it's a joke that
    everybody but me gets.  Don't know what happened to that fellow;
    it was as if he stumbled into the Blue Moon one night right before
    closing and never came back.

bog
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From:         The Ronin <WHITERJ%MSCD.BITNET@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      RE: electronic media

Backpeddleth  Tushar Samant <tushar@ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU>

> 1) How many people in all do computer networks  reach and influence ?

     I don't know.  The number is growing rapidly.  By your own words
you wondered how your sister knew of smiley faces, a net phenom.  How
was the net able to influence her?

> 2) What do desk-top publishing and word-processing have to do with
>    the spread of "language" ?

     You asked what effect 'electronic media' would have on those who
write (presumably professionally).  The increased ease of publishing
combined with the increased ease of editting one's work allows a
larger segment of the population to express not only its ideas but its
version of the language.

> My original question was about a statement which said that computer
> networks will have a profound impact on the language (or maybe a bit
> less strong than that.) It sounds like an amazing overestimation to me.

     I think it is too early to make a defintive statement one way or
the other, but I would bet that there will be an impact.  I doubt
native speakers constitute a majority of English speakers, and the
language used on the net will be (is being) forced to evolve to
incorporate the structures of the non-native speakers.  And as the
nets come to be the preferred method for transporting 'written' work
(and it is), the language of the nets will infect the rest of the
world.

> The Ronin says something about "Populace changing its language structure
> to match what travels on the nets." This, to my mind, is another good
> example of something which passes the internet nerd test.

     The Ronin has never claimed to fail such tests.  The Ronin was
brought up not to fail tests.

The Ronin
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Date:         Sun, 12 Apr 1992 22:03:01 CDT
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From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor%RA.MSSTATE.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Bitnet or Internet Words-L?

>     Natalie and the others at MSSTATE are lucky to have you.

And don't even *THINK* about trying to lure him away from here.
That's one of my biggest fears in life.  If anybody starts trying to
take him away, I'm gonna spread the word all over the net that he's
a hoax.  It's really Bernard sending those postings.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         "815 Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980"
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Subject:      Re: Odder and Odder and Clambake and Stuff

Earlier today, Natalie Maynor noted,

"Clams don't pass through the nets very well."

I've heard of digging for clams.  Netting them is a new one to
me :-)

Steve Karlson (BBA, MA, PhD, LGYC)
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From:         Tushar Samant <tushar%ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Isaac Asimov

>I too will mourn.  At least I had the opportunity to meet him, once: and
>even got *hugged* -- he was very democratic about that.
>
>--bayla

Why are people such Braggarts ? One of my projects is now nipped in the
bud. I must try to meet Martin Gardner somehow.

I think the topic of tarmac rugrats recurs in a lot of Asimov stories. I
think that all the fusionists, dreamers (in one story), to some extent
Susan Calvin ... darn, I used to have a list of all the nerds in Asimov
stories. Anyway, Fusionists is a good example.

tushar
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From:         Rashmi Murthy <rashmi%CBIS.ECE.DREXEL.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Happy Horoscope
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	Happy Birthday, Karen.  Hope you have a great year

rashmi
From: haycock@marley.think.com (Anne Haycock)
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Subject: Re: Foreign titles of degree (was Fitting in)
Date: 8 Apr 92 13:00:28
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Sailor Steve says:

   Herr Doktor Karlson (not Professor yet by the German scheme)
   ^^^^^^^^^^^

A trivia, tho' by no means trivial, question for Words-lers.  French
doctorates in Economics are accorded the title of respect "Maitre" -- my
question is thus:  what if the doctorate is held by a woman?  I doubt
"Maitresse" gives the appropriate connotation or element of respect (well,
perhaps respect for some very different accomplishments).  

Well?  Any ideas out there, oh sagacious ones?

//anne//
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From:         Carol Goodson <CGOODSON%UGA.bitnet@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Disk quotas (was Re: away for a few days)

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.
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From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor%RA.MSSTATE.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Missing Mail
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When you read the posting I just sent, I hope you all don't start thinking
you may be missing mail.  So far I'm on #96 of 425 pieces of new mail
and every delivery-error message I've glanced at so far was from France.
This posting is to keep you from panicking at the thought you might have
missed something important yesterday. :-)
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         Rashmi Murthy <rashmi%CBIS.ECE.DREXEL.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: sad thought
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>
> I don't remember my parents ever having read anything to me regularly.
> In fact they were both absurdly paranoid about exposing their child to
> something he might not be able to digest, and thus underestimated me
> (also my sister). We both had to get literate on our own :-) I am deeply
> grateful to them for that. Imagine the horror of getting exposed to all
> sorts of classics and (worse) music and art and what not. Might have
> developed into a manic depressive by now.
>
> tushar

Yeah, I don't remember my parents reading to me either, but recall reading
when I was very young.  I guess they must have taught me to read.
And I read rather indiscriminately and probably didn't "get" some
of the stuff I was reading.  I also remember that we were always
encouraged to go to the library and get books, received books for
birthdays, things like that. So, though they didn't "read" to us, the
habit was instilled at a very young age.  It was very unsupervised, anything
you found was fair game.  I preferred it that way, too.  The other funny thing
is that my brother, who was exposed to the same environment as me, never read
much as a child.  He reads more, now.

	This thread reminded me of something else - instead of my parents
reading us bedtime stories, my grandma would tell us kids the most
wonderful stories (usually, during the summer vacations).  She had such
a huge collection of them in her head.  Later, I  tried to find out if they were
available in print, and could find some, but had no luck with many others.
We should have recorded them; she was a great raconteur.  (My grandma
died a couple of years ago.)

rashmi
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Subject:      Re: tarmac rugrats

From:   NAME: Les Buhite
        FUNC: Visual and Performing Arts
        TEL: (716) 665-5220                   <BUHITE, LES AT A1 AT JCCV03>
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Quoth The Ronin:

<     I can't change the *whole* world, but I can (and do) have a
<profound influence on the little bit I walk upon.  In another posting
<I stated that I had largely learned not to desire vengance, but, if I
<am rushed and don't have time to find the alternatives, I still
<remember quite vividly how to extract it.
<^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

<The Ronin

My wife is fond of saying that revenge is a dish best served cold.
Fortunately, I've not (so far) had the experience.

I agree wholeheartedly with your philosophy of not desiring revenge.
Face your demons by moving forward.

Les
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From:         RKESSLER%RCNVMS.RCN.MASS.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU
Subject:      WORDS-L in Cambridge
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I was the first to leave the table at the Cambridge Pre-clam
get together--maybe I'll be first to report the event. We suspect
that we witnessed the largest get-together of WORDS-Lers in person
ever: haycock@think.com (anne haycock)
      rita@eff.org (czarina Rita)
      Boorstein@unibsky (Joan Boorstein)
       droby@nova.tcs.tufts.edu (Dan Roby)  & friend Paul
      FNA104@uriace.uri.edu (Jim Bradley)
       Qxn148@uriace    (Lisa Eva Alfiera)
       Primate@Brownvm (Judith Primate)
         ST401601@Brownvm  (Bill Merrill)
       RKessler@RCN.MASS.EDU (Rod Kessler)

Can anyone think of a get-together that tops us?
(If I scrambled anyone's e-address, it's because the nachos' plate
landed on the sign-in sheet (OK, I'm a virgo) and things blurred.

Judith gets top honors for the most leather and for general sartorial
ambiance. Many of us share honors for ordering the heaviest of the
local brews, the porter--so dark that no light squeezed through when
you held the glass up to the light. (Judith had tea, or coffee. Must
have been the designated driver for the URI crew.) As yew can sea,
MY porters havnet affected my accuracy any.

     I took a few black-and-white photos, so we'll have a record  of the
event. Two t-shirts were in sight, and I was pleased to see that both have
kept their color despite what musti] by now be dozens of washings.

    Well, the Red Sox are on TV against the Yankees, so I must do what
we do here in Beantown. I await other reports.
-Rod

Rkessler@RCN.MASS.EDU
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Subject:      Re: Understatement of the Year
              12 Apr 1992 18:49:33 CDT from <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

>>      And for the question about how a country could enforce a ban on
>> going to another country, all the country would have to do is examine
>> the stamps in your passport on the way back home and deny access.
>
I have read that Cuban officials deliberately don't stamp the passports of
Americans, so they won't have any trouble when they return to the U.S.
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From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor%RA.MSSTATE.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: CALLING ALL STUDENTS OF RUSSIAN

>  and I enjoyed what I was doing more when I
> could see the pattern of movements evolving rather than just doing each
> separate movement without thinking

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.

> ndh
> who is still supposed to be sewing, but has been tempted away from the
> machine by words-l

   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
     who is supposed to be grading linguistics tests, but, as usual,
     is playing with the computer instead
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From:         Tushar Samant <tushar%ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject: Re: e m forster

>     We must exclude someone from our gathering or we
>      shall be left with nothing.
>
>           -A Passage to India-

Well, Forster is an idiot, of course.

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

Sayeth Doctor Les Buhite

>                                                      I can change my
> name, but I can't change the world.

     I can't change the *whole* world, but I can (and do) have a
profound influence on the little bit I walk upon.  In another posting
I stated that I had largely learned not to desire vengance, but, if I
am rushed and don't have time to find the alternatives, I still
remember quite vividly how to extract it.

The Ronin
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