[lit-ideas] Re: Dance and other cards
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 22:34:14 -0500
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.
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> It has (they have) lungs?
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> aen> If you want to know anything else, just ask.
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> 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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