[bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: recondite
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 19:22:56 -0700 (PDT)
That sent me there, too. I've seen it and understood it in the context in which
I was reading it, but I didn't really know it out of context.
There's a wonderful word game someone sent me the URL of: free rice:
http://freerice.com/index.php The words start at an easy level and get more
difficult as one proceeds, and "For each word you get right, we donate 20
grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program." (Amy, was it you who
sent it to me? Or my brother.) It's addictive, so if one wants to get any
validating done one must set oneself a limit--time or number of word sets.
Cindy
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--- On Sat, 8/9/08, Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx <Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx <Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: Autodidactic
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Saturday, August 9, 2008, 7:12 PM
> No, I was not aware of those items of interest concerning
> auto didacticism.
> Personally, I may be something of an autodidact, but I
> think I am far from
> famous. Now, it was interesting that I sent you to the
> dictionary. The word that
> I use that most frequently sends people running to the
> dictionary is
> recondite and after they learn the word they often accuse
> me of having recondite
> interests. In a message dated 8/9/2008 6:36:27 P.M. Pacific
> Daylight Time,
> popularplace@xxxxxxxxx writes:
>
> Very interesting. I love all the different kinds of people
> who are bookshare
> volunteers. And you just taught me a new word--rather, you
> caused me to look
> it up online and learn it. Do you know that there is an
> Autodidactic Press
> and also a list online of famous autodidactic people,
> though the list doesn't
> say what their particular areas of interest were/are. One
> of them is Ezra
> Cornell, which is interesting since he founded a
> university.
>
> Cindy
>
>
> --- On Sat, 8/9/08, Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx
> <Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > From: Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx
> <Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>
> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Wish List
> > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Date: Saturday, August 9, 2008, 6:22 PM
> > It is not for school. I am a student, but not
> formally.
> > Basically, I am a
> > long-time autodidactic student of the history,
> philosophy
> > and politics of
> > communism. I am especially partial to books written
> from
> > the communist point of
> > view, especially the Trotskyist and Cuban points of
> view.
> > Books from a non
> > communist point of view are okay as long as they are
> > objective, but I find most
> > of those books are basically anti-communist slander.
> Right
> > now I am trying to
> > learn as much as I can about James P. Cannon, the
> founder
> > of American
> > Trotskyism. So, yes, I am a student, but the only
> school I
> > attend is the one
> > administered and taught by myself for myself. In a
> message
> > dated 8/9/2008 5:35:41
> > P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, popularplace@xxxxxxxxx
> writes:
> >
> > Roger,
> >
> > I've added James P. Cannon and the Origins of the
> > American Revolutionary
> > Left, 1890-1928to the Wish List. Is it for school or
> for
> > your pleasure. If
> > the former, we can ask Carrie to get it with the
> grant
> > money and it probably
> > will get into the collection faster.
> >
> > Cindy
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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