they don't make words like they used to

[Joel S. Berson]

At 9/11/2006 02:10 PM, you wrote:
>...what exactly a lustrum workshop was.  I was pretty sure I'd never
>knowingly encountered a lustrum before, and had no conception of what
>it might be.  Anyone else know?  I may have lived a sheltered (not to
>say benighted) life, but I was somewhat surprised to come across this
>announcement with its apparent presupposition that the reader would
>immediately recognize that a "lustrum workshop" obviously refers to...

Perhaps you did not lead a sufficiently sheltered life--that is, not
in academe :-)  When I was a student I knew what "lustrum" meant
(although I had to look it up at the time), but I'd since forgotten.

Joel

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