they don't make words like they used to

[Joel S. Berson]

At 9/18/2006 11:46 AM, Bill Mullins wrote:
>I watched most of "Rooster Cogburn" over the weekend.  In it, John
>Wayne's character is being forcibly retired for reasons of age and
>decrepitude.  He maintains that he is good for another "lustrum",
>however.

Did you happen to catch which university Rooster attended?  Or
whether earlier he had been detached by his unit to attend and learn
Latin?  Or was it on an ROTC scholarship?

Joel

> >
> > Just got this notice on Linguist List, which led me to wonder...
> >
> > >
> > >This lustrum workshop offers a forum of discussion between
> > researchers
> > >from different fields of writing research (theoretical linguistics,
> > >psycholinguistics, computational linguistics or language education),
> > >from different countries and working on different languages.
> >
> > ...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...
> >
>
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