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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
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Subject:      Yo-Yo Ma!

Well, I have experienced a rather quiet night - wife, daughter and Muffy
are camping - just me and the bird - and he's being quiet.  Would like
to hang around and see what kind of trouble Anne (mfirst GIF experience -
and a Blackbird to boot) can stir up, but stayed up way too late yesterday
and 5 AM comes much too soon.  Have fun, children, and don't do anything
I .........(add your own verb!).  Good night.

                            Peace,
                                  Don
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From:         Adam M Hartfield <AHARTFIE%DREW.bitnet@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject: Old-Timers? Generation X?

Well then, I guess I'm in my virtual middle age, since I started
reading words-l Feb. of 1990 or  so.  Or was that 1991?  I don't
know, but it was just as the list was moving and Natalie was voted in
as List Goddess.  I do remember her shock her at being suggested;
it's nice to find a modest goddess.

--Prof. H, virtually middled aged but young at heart
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From:         The Ronin <WHITERJ%MSCD.BITNET@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: CALLING ALL STUDENTS OF RUSSIAN

Sayeth        Lobstrosities Unite <CHRISS@CWU.BITNET>

> 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 doe
s
> help when something breaks down.  Or if you happen to be a room of mechanics
> and want to fit in.

     But if one can recognize the patterns in the traffic, both what
the drivers are doing and what the traffic engineers are doing, it
helps.  Pity this isn't taught in Driver's Education.  And it is the
recognition of the patterns that I think we are talking about as much
as the mechanics.

The Ronin
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From:         "Aaron Dickey, still alive"
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Subject:      Re: Goodnight Yawn
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My ex-female cat was named Bill.

--Aaron
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From:         "Aaron Dickey, The Happy Spore"
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Subject:      Re: Gleanings (39
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MTV hasn't been good since 1987, and never will be again.  They're too
much into showing off their "cool" technology and their "cool" VJs and so
on.  They lost their honesty, and they'll never get it back.

--Aaron
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From:         Carol Goodson <CGOODSON%UGA.bitnet@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: TV
              10 Apr 1992 21:02:00 EDT from <AHARTFIE@DREW.DREW.EDU>

>My favorite cheapo pen is also the UniBall micro.  I like the blue
>best, followed by green, black, and red.   I must admit a fondness
>for plain old PaperMate blue medium-point throwaways, and I really
>like their fine-point blue Office Products disposable pen.
>
!!!!How can you mention the Uniball in the same paragraph with a Paper-
Mate throwaway?  You must be closet schizophrenic....


>Side note:  How many of us wordslers have terrible penmanship?
>Mine's legible, but barely.
>

I do, too--because I am so accustomed to typing/wordprocessing that I can't
get my thoughts down fast enough in pen... so try to avoid writing actually.
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From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor%RA.MSSTATE.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject: Re: Descriptive and prescriptive
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> that people sometimes argue as though there were. Apparently the idea
> is that if we take it to be the business of linguistics to describe
> language in certain neutral terms, descriptions of language
> in terms of "poor" and "good" and the like must thereby be ruled out
> as arbitrary or merely "social" or otherwise of minor importance. How this
> follows has never been explained.

I would never use the word "merely" in reference to the social attitudes
affecting language!  That would be pretty hard to explain to my students
in sociolinguistics.  Nor would I call arbitrary or social conventions
"of minor importance"!   What I've been trying to point out is the
nature of and origin of judgments about dialectal variation.  The fact
that "he doesn't" is the form in the standard dialect and "he don't"
is the form in some other dialects of English is a result of social/
political forces.  There is nothing innately superior about "he doesn't."
People who use "he doesn't" instead of "he don't" do not necessarily
"think better" than people who use "he don't."  The social/political
forces that define the standard are *extremely* important.  Identifying
them as social/political does not in any way lessen their importance.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         The Ronin <WHITERJ%MSCD.BITNET@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: roll call

From the World's Foremost Expert, Professor Tushar Samant

> A much better idea would be to do away with pointers altogether.

     Surely you aren't suggesting that pointers be relegated to the heap?

The Ronin
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From:         droby%NOVA.TCS.TUFTS.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU
Subject:      Re: Cambridge pre-clam Update
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              05 Apr 92 19:32:00 CDT." <9204061220.aa21641@Nova.TCS.Tufts.EDU>

Says "815 Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980" <TA0SHK1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>:
>I hope the words-lers who headed to the Kendall Square station
>remembered to bring their nickels.  I'd hate to think of someone
>handing Don or Rita or Anne or any of the others a portable PC
>through the open window of a T train each day.
>
>Steve Karlson

It's more than a nickel these days, but you pay it when you get on, so poor
Charlie's situation is no longer possible.

I never understood why she didn't hand him a nickel instead of a sandwich,
except maybe she liked having him trapped on the subway.

- Don R
From: haycock@marley.think.com (Anne Haycock)
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Subject: Re: slang
Date: 14 Apr 92 11:02:32
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Lisa  dares:

   >   Does anybody know an origin for the slang term "cool beans"?  It's

   >Well, considering that I've been saying it for, oh, about 15 years at least
   >(I'm now 28), I'd have to say *I* coined it.  I'd never heard it before I
   >started using it.  'course, it could have just spontaneously combusted upon
   >the slang scene and I was just one of many vehicles ... but I prefer to
   >think of it as mine alone.

   If it is yours alone, than what does it mean?  Why did you  start saying it, I
   mean in referance to what?  I heard it 3 years ago, a guy I dated used it all
   the time.  I had  been using it but have given it up because it is too popular
   just like "NOT" and "WAY".


Too popular?  Who wudda thunk it?  

To me it means:  "Alright!"  "Too cool!"  "We're happy now!"  "What a cool
thing!"

You don't say it with any emphasis -- the intent is clear by just saying
"Cool beans."  You're marking the thing that gave rise to it as "way cool"
and worthy of note.  Funny, because usually I try to avoid slang--well, not
consciously avoid, but it doesn't usually come up *boing* in my
conversation.  For me, "cool beans" is like a mellow acknowledgment of
something neat.  Or, I'll even reply with a "Cool beans." when someone says
"How 'bout getting together after work tomorrow?" (More like an "O.k.")

I do wonder if the expression is originally from the west and has just
taken this long to migrate?  Wouldn't doubt it.  

//wordmaster annie//
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From:         "Adam M. Hartfield" <AHARTFIE%DRUNIVAC.DREW.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
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Hi all,

Let's hear it for all the High Bandwidth Pigs...this is from the
uunet monitoring newsgroups...



         No. of       % of
Rank Articles KBytes Total   User

   3   229     134.2  0.0%   whiterj%mscd.bitnet@vtvm2.CC.VT.EDU  (        The
 Ronin )
                              100% bit.listserv.words-l

   9   147      84.5  0.0%   maynor%ra.msstate.edu@vtvm2.CC.VT.EDU  (
 "Natalie Maynor" )
                              100% bit.listserv.words-l


  23   117      68.6  0.0%   gtoal@robobar.CO.UK  (Graham Toal
 "gtoal@vangogh.cs.berkeley.edu")
                              47% bit.listserv.words-l
                              9% alt.usage.english
				[other non-relevant groups deleted]

Words-L was right up there on the total traffic list, too, but I
couldn't find the message that said it.  Oh well.  If only there was
ANU-NEWS for Unix...

--Adam, ever vigilant
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From:         Rita Marie Rouvalis <rita%EFF.ORG@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: English geeks (was Re: in-jokes and such
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              7, 92 6:16 pm

> Yay!!! Let's hear it for English majors turned programmers.

	No!  Let's hear it from those who go both ways!

Czarina
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Date:         Tue, 14 Apr 1992 07:43:29 CDT
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From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor%RA.MSSTATE.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: ODDS 'N' ENDS
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>   >>For example, are you or are you not saying that
>   >>you know as a linguist that there is nothing wrong with a language
>   >>such as English changing into a system of grunts?
>   >I am.
>   But didn't you just agree with me ("As you say...") that this is a
> value judgment, philosophical in nature? Or is it just the view that
> there is something wrong with such a change that is a value judgment,
> philosophical in nature, not the view that there is nothing wrong with
> such a change?

I see several problems here.  One is that linguistics is a very large
field.  When you say "a linguist," are you including sociolinguists?
I am.  The matter of value judgments and philosophical questions is
related to how we're using the word "wrong."  As I pointed out earlier
this morning, I'm not using it in a moral sense.  I'm using it in a
practical sense.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         Evelyn <R3EJD%AKRONVM.bitnet@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      story for the day

A friend of mine sent me a little story to end the day on a happy note
(I had 2 tests and am feeling a little down).

Evelyn

----------------------------Original message----------------------------

          From the "Alice Has A Rockin' Time" series:

     One day, Alice sat in her kitchen and realized that she was not
having a very rockin' time.  She went into the living room and turned on
the stereo.  The music helped, but after a while it began to make her
very bored.  Soon she decided to go to a place where there were people
and music  so she could have a really rockin' time.
     Alice went to a place called "The Chicken Perch".  She always liked
going there to watch all the roosters try to pick her up.  She sat at
the bar and ordered a bowl of eggdrop soup.  Sure enough, it wasn't long
before a cocky rooster hopped up onto the stool beside Alice.
     "How ya doing, chick?" crowed the rooster.
     Alice didn't answer right away because one of her favorite songs,
"Birds Fly (Whisper To A Squawk)" was playing on the jukebox.  After the
song was over, she looked at the rooster and said "Oh, I'm having a
rockin' time.  What's your name?"
     "Kentucky Cooper, but my friends call me 'Kentucky Cooper'.  So,
how about you and me going back to my place and locking beaks?"
     "Are you rich?"
     "I've got a pretty big nest egg stored away."
     "No, I don't think I should.  You seem like the kind of rooster
that would want something permanent.  I don't want to take anyone under
my wing right now."
     "What's wrong with permanent?  We would be able to settle down and
get married.  Maybe start a flock of our own."
     "Gross!  Can you imagine me sitting at home all day while you were
out pecking out a living.  By the way, do you have a job?"
     "Not right now, but I'd wing it."
     "After a while of being cooped up like that, I'd start to henpeck
you to death.  No, I don't think I want to become Alice Cooper."
Kentucky was very upset and ordered a strong cocktail.  "I'm sorry,"
said Alice "I didn't mean to ruffle your feathers or put you in a fowl
mood, but I really think we aren't right for each other.  Be careful
about how much you drink, I don't want you to get hard-boiled."  Alice
stood up, went to the jukebox and punched in a song by the Yardbirds.
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From:         Steve Portigal <stevep%SNOWHITE.CIS.UOGUELPH.CA@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: nothing wrong
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              at Apr 16, 92 3:39 pm

The Ronin writes:
>
> [Things I don't know enough about to comment on deleted]

   Well there's a first!  My illusions have been shattered...

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From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor%RA.MSSTATE.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      RE: BWP Stats 4/8/92 *The Ronin Takes the Gold!*

> > > LL23%NEMOMUS.bitnet@CU...   71  <---Sisterhood is powerful level
> > > Karen Kay                   11
> > > LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@UG...   8
>
>      You are not the only one affected by this.  While I cannot
> provide an answer in all cases (I am affected the same way), I am

My guess is that the reason for the first and third of the separate
listings above is the route the messages took in reaching the listserv.
Note the differences after the @.  But I have no idea why the stats list
also includes listings with name rather than address.  I've wondered
about that for a good while now.  Maybe I'll ask on LSTOWN-L sometime.
I try to show restraint on that list and ask only crucial questions.
As we all know, different lists have different styles/tones.  LSTOWN-L
is not at all like WORDS-L.  One thing that fascinates me about list
culture is the varying styles and people's adaptation to those styles.
Lately I've been contributing a few things to IPCT-L -- in the expected
verbose, almost pompous style that seems to be expected on that list.
Somehow I want to giggle when I submit things to lists like that since
the style of WORDS-L is more my style.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
From: gtoal@robobar.co.uk (Graham Toal)
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Date: 10 Apr 92 01:13:56 GMT
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In article <WORDS-L%92040821444777@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> WHITERJ%MSCD.BITNET@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU (The Ronin) writes:
:     That matches what I was picking up.  Chris is using 'rules' to
:mean the output of the analysis done after observing native speakers
:(which is almost guaranteed to be out of date, as the natives have
:probably altered something in the meantime), while Natalie is
:referencing the (frequently unconcious) internal rules the native
:speaker uses.  Which leads to what I dislike about prescriptivist

This concept of rules is totally illusory - we build up our input
and output processing mechanisms by feeding in many examples as
we grow through childhood.  Our neural hardware adapts its configurations
so that our outputs match those of people around us.  Seeing some
formal rules or structures in the behaviour we exhibit is a conceit
of the mind and a function of our continual striving to extract
patterns in what we see - in this case higher-level patterns in
the patterns.

Graham
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>>        I dunno.  I'm an associate editor, so I don't fit in at all.
>>Rita

>Take heart, Rita.  I am a managing editor, and Judith is an editor,
>so I think we can safely establish our own clique on this list.

>   Sincerely, A.D. the M.E.

I'm an Associate Editor, too.  Can a co...I mean man...get into
this particular henhouse?  Cackle-cackle....

Ken
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From:         Tushar Samant <tushar%ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Zariski

Don says:

>... (rhapsody on a theme of Zariski,  with much name-dropping (presumably
>gleanings-bait) omitted) ...

All proper nouns except in the sig are names of mathematicians.

Hilbert: Turn of century, did all sorts of work in all sorts of branches
of mathematics. It is amazing how a mathematician who lived that recently
could have his name attached to so many basic concepts, let's see ...
Hilbert transform, Hilbert space, Hilbert class-field, Hilbert's program,
(Hilbert problem n), Hilbert polynomial, Hilbert basis theorem, Hilbert
theorem 90, Hilbert's nullstellensatz, Hilbert modular form, etc. etc.
These are names that a math major can get off the top of his head, so
he probably is next only to Gauss in this context.

Zariski: I am sorry to say I don't really know what he did, except that
it was in the general area of commutative algebra/algebraic geometry. He
died a few years ago, after writing a truly pathbreaking paper at the age
of 82. The first time we hear of him is when "Zariski topology" is defined.

Atiyah: Sir Michael Atiyah, one of the big mathematicians of today. The
context in which we hear of him is the Atiyah-Singer index theorem.
Apparently he is also big in k-theory (don't ask.)

Samuel: The only reason he is known to us is the textbook "Zariski and
Samuel."

Macdonald: Similarly, known to us only as the coauthor of "Atiyah and
>Macdonald".

Segre: Emilio Segre was an Italian geometer, who is supposed to have been
truly great. None of what he did is known to me. He got his results
"intuitively", and the Zariski topology is an example of rigorising
arguments like his.

This leaves Count Bourbaki, who will be covered in another volume.


>>PS  The internationally acclaimed treatment of Atiyah and Macdonald has
>>now been digitally recorded. Copies of the file can be got by email.
>
>	Where do I send?  I need this!

I only attempted a feeble joke about "digitally recorded." Just photocopy
the relevant pages (the unspoken violation of law which all students commit.)
(The other joke is mentioning "prime characteristic" somewhere.)

tushar
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From:         leah <LEAH%BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: the free press
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Then, Rita, I guess we are in agreement, fundamentally. I guess our difference
is largely a semantic one, in that I state what I believe to be the constitu-ti
onal intent of "a free press"; you state the actuality: the press is free to th
ose whohave the money to own it.
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From:         Lobstrosities Unite <CHRISS%CWU.bitnet@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: CALLING ALL STUDENTS OF RUSSIAN

>I'm having trouble with this analogy.  How does language break down and need
>fixing?
>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

Language doesn't break down and need fixing anymore than auto-mechanics break
down and need fixing.  However, specific applications of language or
auto-mechanics frequently break down.  This is what leads to conversational
(spoken or written) misunderstandings and timing chains lying on the road.

Chris
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From:         CGOODSON%UGA.bitnet@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU
Subject:      Re: sad thought
              12 Apr 1992 18:45:31 -0500 from <harwood@TENET.EDU>

>> Does anybody know of any studies showing what happens when parents
>> continue reading to children after the children know how to read?
>> I'm wondering if that might in some cases deter the child's reading
>> on his/her own.
>>    --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
>
>That is an interesting point...although my father continued to read to me
>for several years after I learned to read, I was already so hooked that
>I read constantly on my own.
>ndh

Although I hate it myself, I know quite a few adults who love to be read to...
I DON'T understand it....
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