6.1563, Misc: New List, Jokes, Sum, Binary comparison

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-6-1563. Mon Nov 6 1995. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines:  194
 
Subject: 6.1563, Misc: New List, Jokes, Sum, Binary comparison
 
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Date:  Mon, 06 Nov 1995 09:53:43 +0700
From:  gwyn at ipied.tu.ac.th (Gwyn Williams)
Subject:  New List: English Language Teaching in Asia
 
2)
Date:  Sat, 04 Nov 1995 21:24:07 GMT
From:  Ted.Harding at nessie.mcc.ac.uk (Ted Harding)
Subject:  Re: 6.1553, Sum: What's Funny? (part 2)
 
3)
Date:  Sat, 04 Nov 1995 21:21:10 EST
From:  mcovingt at ai.uga.edu (Michael Covington)
Subject:  Re: 6.1553, Sum: What's Funny? (part 2)
 
4)
Date:  Mon, 06 Nov 1995 08:01:00 CST
From:  TB0EXC1 at MVS.CSO.NIU.EDU
Subject:  pidgin/creole list
 
5)
Date:  Sun, 05 Nov 1995 11:47:46 CST
From:  CONNOLLY at MSUVX1.MEMPHIS.EDU
Subject:  Binary comparison in German
 
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Date:  Mon, 06 Nov 1995 09:53:43 +0700
From:  gwyn at ipied.tu.ac.th (Gwyn Williams)
Subject:  New List: English Language Teaching in Asia
 
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Date:  Sat, 04 Nov 1995 21:24:07 GMT
From:  Ted.Harding at nessie.mcc.ac.uk (Ted Harding)
Subject:  Re: 6.1553, Sum: What's Funny? (part 2)
 
( Re Message From: The Linguist List )
> LINGUIST List:  Vol-6-1553. Sat Nov 4 1995. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines:  233
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> Subject: 6.1553, Sum: What's Funny? (part 2)
>
> ***************
> >From jon at sound.music.mcgill.ca
>
> The Scottish town of Fife, a well-known fishing centre, hosts an
> annual international competition whose winner is he who manages to
> consume the greatest quantity of fish.  The particular variety of fish
> involved is tench, a local favorite, abundant off the North Atlantic
> coast and exported throughout the whole EEC.
>
On a point of fact, and with regrets: The tench is a strictly fresh-water
fish of, principally, South-to-Midland England and Ireland (within the
British Isles), and absent from most of Scotland (though possibly can be
found in Fife); it is not valued as food in Britain and is certainly not
an object of major trade. (It attracts some esteem in Continental Europe;
and was also commonly reared in medieval monasteries' stewponds.)
 
However, the punch-line:
>
> ONE TOOTH FREE FOR FIFE'S HICKS: SVEN ATE NINE TENCH
>
is a delight and merits a good setting.
 
Solemnly,
Ted.                                    (Ted.Harding at nessie.mcc.ac.uk)
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Date:  Sat, 04 Nov 1995 21:21:10 EST
From:  mcovingt at ai.uga.edu (Michael Covington)
Subject:  Re: 6.1553, Sum: What's Funny? (part 2)
 
If you like strings of prepositions, note that the example sentence
(the little boy's remark) can be altered as follows:
 
The boy was back home in England but the book was about Australian
cricket.  Accordingly:
 
"What did you bring the book that I didn't want to be read
to out of about over after over down in Down Under up for?"
 
(This is not original; I heard it from Holt Parker.)
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Date:  Mon, 06 Nov 1995 08:01:00 CST
From:  TB0EXC1 at MVS.CSO.NIU.EDU
Subject:  pidgin/creole list
 
My thanks to the dozen or so of you who responded to
my inquiry as to the existence of a discussion list
devoted to pidgins/creoles.
Nearly every one of you said that you knew of no such
list but wanted to be notified if there were. So, it
appears that such a list does not exist but a number of
people would be interested in participating if there
were.
 
 
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Date:  Sun, 05 Nov 1995 11:47:46 CST
From:  CONNOLLY at MSUVX1.MEMPHIS.EDU
Subject:  Binary comparison in German
 
Mark A. Mandel (Mark at ccgate.dragonsys.com) wrote:
 
>I recall reading of a German linguist (or philologist?) who applied
>binary reconstruction with an almost pathological severity, quoting
>and applying a German maxim that I can only remember the outline of.
>It was a rhymed couplet in iambic trimeter,
>    da-DA da-DA da-DA
>    da-DA da-DA da-DA
>The first line meant something like "through the mouths of two
>witnesses", and went something like "Durch zweier Zeugen Mund..."
>(That may well be an ungrammatical German fragment, but blame my
>memory).
 
I don't know the quote or the persnickety linguist, but an easy way to finish
the couplet would be:
 
	Durch zweier Zeugen Mund
	Wird stets die Wahrheit kund.
 
"Through two witnesses' mouths, the truth will always become known."
 
That's far too few, in my opinion; but then, the quote is absolutely
inapplicable to binary comparison regardless of the number.
 
Leo A. Connolly                         Foreign Languages & Literatures
connolly at msuvx1.memphis.edu             University of Memphis
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