mailring (was Greetings!)

[M M]

I'm pleased to learn that I don't type with too much
of a Minnesotan accent.  How many Minnesotans are on
this "mailring"?  So far I've found 3 of us.

Maybe I was presumptuous in saying that "mailring" is
common in Minnesota, but it is what I've heard in my
sheltered life.  I have never heard it used as a term
for a "poor man's listserv."

I have studied some phonetic and phonology, but as you
guessed, I've only been looking at books.  I'll keep
my eyes open for any phonetic books with tapes, or
perhaps I could enroll in some summer courses in
phonetics/phonology.  Thanks for the advice!


Maia

--- Tom Kysilko <pds at VISI.COM> wrote:
> At 01:38 PM 8/8/2002 -0400, Alice Faber wrote:
> >Dave Wilton said:
> >>  > "Mailring"--a new term to me!  Has anyone else
> heard it?
> >
> >This sounds more like an email version of the
> family circular letters
> >(predecessor of the holiday letter?). Mom writes a
> newsy letter to
> >daughter #1, who adds a newsy letter and forwards
> it and Mom's letter
> >to her sister (daughter #2), and so forth. I'm not
> sure the term
> >makes sense for a mailing list, since the
> information is transmitted
> >in parallel rather than serially.
>
> My father's sibs and nieces, who grew up in central
> WI, carried on one of
> these for many years, calling it their "round
> robin".
>
> And FWIW, this Minnesotan has not previously
> encountered "mailring".  If I
> had to guess, I suppose I'd apply it to a "poor
> man's listserv" in which
> all participants keep a group or distribution list
> in their address books,
> or just keep replying "to all".
>
> And Beverly, how did you smoke out the Minnesotan?
> I re-read Maia's
> message several times and could not detect an
> accent.
> *
> *
> *
> Ok, that was meant to be a joke, but ...  One of the
> problems Maia may run
> into if she continues self-directed study in
> linguistics for the two or
> three years until grad school is what to do about
> phonetics/phonology.  One
> can stare at that blasted trapezoid or, even worse,
> sonograms without
> learning as much as one would like to.  A textbook
> with accompanying tapes
> or CDs would be nice (Are their any?), but I suspect
> (as one who has never
> had one) that there is no substitute for a good
> class.
>
>   Tom Kysilko        Practical Data Services
>   pds at visi.com       Saint Paul MN USA


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