[lit-ideas] Re: Dance and other cards

You're right, plural of pleural is pleura.  Thanks for the correction. 
Even if it did hurt my feelings.

Andy 
 



> [Original Message]
> From: Judy Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 2/25/2005 9:47:21 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Dance and other cards
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> Saturday, February 26, 2005, 2:31:53 AM, aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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> aen> Woe is I.  The verb of being takes the subjective case.  Failing
that, woe
> aen> is mine (or, as in this case, yours).  BTW, the pleural of a
computer mouse
> aen> is either mouses or mice.
>
>
> It has (they have) lungs?
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> aen> If you want to know anything else, just ask.
>
> aen> Andy Amago
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>
> >> [Original Message]
> >> From: Erin Holder <erin.holder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Date: 2/25/05 8:48:33 PM
> >> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Dance and other cards
> >>
> >> I, on the other hand, and trying to keep Erkenntnis, Ergebnis, and
> aen> Erlebnis straight.  Oh, woe is me.  
> >> For all intensive purposes.  Ha.  I really like that : )
> >>
> >>
> >> Erin
> >> TO
> >>   ----- Original Message ----- 
> >>   From: David Ritchie 
> >>   To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> >>   Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 8:43 PM
> >>   Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Dance and other cards
> >>
> >>
> >>   While I have been off witnessing condo races and water twisters in
> aen> L.A., I
> >>   have apparently missed an important party, one at which I was
nominated
> aen> to
> >>   cook.  Apologies.  I trust that the whisky was Trader Joe's best,
that
> aen> Erin
> >>   let the microbrewed keg settle before it was tapped, and that the two
> aen> who
> >>   started all this led you in suitably literary dances, an Allemande to
> aen> begin
> >>   perhaps, followed by the Haymakers, some Jigs and Hornpipes, a
minuet, a
> >>   riotous reel?
> >>
> >>   My excuse for disturbing the silence is poor.  Having spent the
morning
> >>   reading things like, "For all intensive purposes, I will consistently
> aen> use
> >>   this terminology throughout the paper," I was delighted by the
following
> >>   history, "My great-great uncle [identity snipped] was the village
> >>   blacksmith, who was best known for fitting a ring in the nose of a
> aen> circus
> >>   bear without the use of a tranquilizer.  My great-great grandfather
> aen> [i.d.
> >>   snipped] was an inventor who sued Thomas Edison for patent
infringement
> >>   concerning a magnetic iron ore separator.  In the 1950's William
> aen> [snip], my
> >>   grandfather, was a programmer on the UNIVAC, the first civilian use
> >>   "computer"... [snip]...  Sharing an interest in all of these things,
> aen> from
> >>   forging metal to programming computers, I feel that I am part of all
> aen> that
> >>   came before me."
> >>
> >>   There, wouldn't you want to read the rest of the thesis and see the
art
> aen> that
> >>   arises from such an inheritance?  Well done that man.
> >>
> >>   David Ritchie
> >>   Portland, Oregon 
> >>
> >>  
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