[bksvol-discuss] Re: Wish list: Bower-Litten contest books
- From: "EVAN REESE" <mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:02:38 -0400
While it doesn't give etymology, Google's Define feature is now my primary
source if I just want to know what a word means.
So in a few seconds I find that "tabid" means:
Pertaining to tabes; Wasting away, declining
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tabid
Affected by progressive bodily wasting or emaciation
theland.antgear.com/use.html
adjective - [rare] 1. affected with tabes; wasted by disease; consumptive;
marcid
2. corrupted; decomposed 3. ...
www.gdiproductions.net/srdamd/
It's very convenient.
Evan
----- Original Message -----
From: Kim Friedman
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 5:08 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Wish list: Bower-Litten contest books
Hi, Evan, Kim here. I got a Concise Oxford English Dictionary and Thesaurus
on a compact flash card from Humanware. I mention this because I think it is
too concise. In other words, it doesn't have definitions for all the words in
the language. I wanted to look up a definition for the word "tabid" a word I
know Donaldson used, but the dictionary had no definition for it. I thought to
myself, "What kind of a dictionary is his?" The point of having a dictionary is
to find out about all the ways people have used a particular word. I don't know
if I've made myself clear here. I want to know the definitions of words I don't
know, not ones for words which are garden every day sort of words. Regards, Kim
aka Ellinder.
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of EVAN REESE
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Those were fabulous books IMHO, as were the Second Chronicles. I expect to
soon be starting the Final Chronicles; and if they approach the quality of the
first two, I know I will love them as well.
You are definitely right about the large vocabulary. I encountered more new
words from him than I had in years of reading before that. <grin>
Evan
----- Original Message -----
From: Kim Friedman
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Sent: Saturday, July 04, 2009 10:11 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Wish list: Bower-Litten contest books
Hi, Roger, I don't know if you've ever read The Chronicles of Thomas
Covenant, by Stephen Donaldson, but he used the dream device in his first
trilogy. I wouldn't call him an awful writer, but I can say he had a large
vocabulary and didn't mind using it. Regards, Kim aka Ellinder.
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Speaking of language changes, there also have been changes in writing
styles and literary devices. I don't recall any commentary on this but I have
noticed a literary device that was frequently employed in the late nineteenth
and early twentyeth centuries that no writer would get away with today. That is
that when a novel contained elements of the fantastic the author explained
everything by just having the protagonist wake up at the end of the novel and
realize that the entire story had been a dream. That was used in Looking
Backward by Edward Bellamy and The Man Who was Tuesday by G. K. Chesterton.
There were some others too, the titles of which slip my mind right now. I
suppose, at one time, that was considered good writing. Nowadays it would cause
groans and eye rolling.
"If you tremble
with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine." Che
Guevara
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Hi, Shelley, Kim here. Can you imagine what fun good writers have when they
deliberately set out to write badly? I'm interested in seeing books about
language quirks and changes. What do you think of dictionaries of slang? I
remember having a lot of fun reading I Hear America Talking by Stewart Bird
Flexner because he listed all manner of expressions indicating the lack of
sobriety of a person? Some priceless expressions I can recall are: being
foxed, pie-eyed, being three sheets to the wind, on the sauce, etc. I
personally wouldn't care to be pickled, stewed or dipsomaniacal, but I like
drinking songs. At least I don't suffer from hangovers, maybe just a case of
laryngitis should my voice become hoarse. Regards, Kim aka Ellinder.
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Shelley L. Rhodes
Sent: Saturday, July 04, 2009 7:26 AM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Wish list: Bower-Litten contest books
Hi here is the list of the contest winners, from all the years. Bookshare
doesn't have any of these, neither alas does my library system, but perhaps
someone out there has them and can add them smile to Bookshare.
It Was a Dark and Stormy Night Son of "It Was a Dark and Stormy Night"
Bride of Dark and Stormy It Was a Dark & Stormy Night: The Final Conflict
Dark and Stormy Rides Again
Shelley L. Rhodes, M.A., VRT
And Guinevere: Golden Lady Guide Dog
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Guide Dogs for the Blind
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The people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment thought of
their act as violence; rather they thought of it as an act of divinely
mandated righteousness.
The same can be said of most of the violence we humans have ever committed.
-Gil Bailie, author and lecturer (b. 1944)
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