Dear Mike, Erin, Eric and Lawrence, I have only recently been able to check my e-mail log and I see that you people have replied to postings I have made this past month. Thank you for your replies. Unfortunately, I no longer have those messages in my "old mail" folder. Either I inadvertently deleted them, or my programme ate them due to my folders being "over quota." (Somebody has been sending attachments with audio and video in them!) If the latter, this may well be the case since the dysfunctionality resulting from that source is quite indiscriminate in its applications across my saved folders. I apologize for any unduly and uncharacteristically long absences of replies from me to your messages. If you still remember what they were about, and still care about receiving a response from me, please send them out again. If not, I understand. What I can recall of the messages is that I owe thanks to Mike G. for explaining the difference between metonymy and synechdoche (sp?), to Eric Y. for a reply in Russian (?) to a piece of Russian church liturgy I included in my "Latin translations at Hemingway's" message and to Erin H. on a topic I now no longer recollect. Thank you. Cheers, Walter Walter C. Okshevsky Memorial University ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html