Speaking of Geary, the better Geary, died recently of heart disease and was
Memorialized this past weekend in St. Louis where he had lived for the past
2 or 3 decades. Tom was his name. He was blond. None of his 5 siblings
are blond. He alone Nature chose to draw attention to. Either that or our
mother has some explaining to do. Tom was 18 months younger than me. He
was better put together than me. On the city bus the giggly high school
girls would try to sit as close to him as they could. Those who managed to
get one of the opposing back seats would cross their legs in a daring show
their appreciation of him and would whisper to one another and twitter and
titter and giggle. They never did that for me. Tom was a Math man and a
science junkie. He had little use for rhymes. I was his opposite. But he
had read most of the books that I was supposed to have read as an English
major. There was not a mean bone in his body. He was funny, witty and
wise. I will miss him. If you wonder why I'm posting this here, it's
because I know that if you had known him, you would have wanted to know of
his passing.
On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 12:25 AM, Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
JL, in a response to what David Ritchie* wrote, wrote.
...we could play with the idea that Borges played football. Only he would
call it Rugby football. According to Grice who went to Clifton and taught
at Rossall...
Scholars have argued since the first sunrise whether 'rugby' is a
semantically dangerous word, apt to multiply senses on the side, or—as was
first thought—the proper and only paradigmatic marker of one of poor Kant's
unchanging headaches.
Much of this—as much as anybody would want, and then some—is tediously
discussed under 'rugby' or 'Rugby,' or both or either of those terms at
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rugby
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I once heard Grice sneeze.
Robert Paul
On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 11:42 AM, Luigi Speranza <
dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On May 14, 2016, at 1:18 PM, david ritchie <profdritchie@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
we could play with the idea that Borges played football.
Only he would call it Rugby football. According to Grice who went to
Clifton and taught at Rossall,
i. Do not be more informative than is required.
But as Geary observes, 'Rugby football' is otiosely shortened to 'rugby',
"while The Rolling Stones are shortened to The Stones. Odd how
un-Griceianly English works in the wrong context."
Cheers,
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