Pseudo-acronyms

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Wed Nov 21 11:24:17 UTC 2001


At 1:01 PM -0500 11/21/01, Mark.Mandel at LHSL.COM wrote:
>Jordan Rich <funkmasterj at MAILANDNEWS.COM> reminisces:
>
>>>>>>
>In college, we would try to guess what fraternities' & sororities' letters
>stood for.  Since they're secret, who was to deny our guesses?
><<<<<
>
>Phi Beta Kappa = philosophia biou kybernetes 'philosophy is the steersman
>of life'. But that's not your typical frat.
>
Thanks for the tip--I never realized that we pledges of this frat
were relatively early explorers in cyberspace!

larry



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