Quiet rooms

[Joel S. Berson]

So "quiet" can mean either "quiet" or "talkative".  (E.g., the former
for a railroad car; the latter for Romney's room, or The Cone of Silence.)

Youneverknow.

Joel

At 1/14/2012 02:47 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>On Jan 14, 2012, at 2:42 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
>
> > Interesting. Some libraries, especially law libraries, have "quiet
> > rooms" where laptops are not permitted. That was /my/ original reference.
> >
> >    VS-)
>
>Ditto "quiet cars" on trains, although more for (non-use of) cell
>phones than for laptops.  At least some of those quiet cars are
>pretty noisy, depending on the trains.
>
>LH
> >
> > On 1/14/2012 10:33 AM, Darla Wells wrote:
> >> I have seen the term used in Wichita Falls, Texas, schools along with
> >> resource room to mean a place for kids with various learning problems,
> >> also. Though in recent years, prison terminology seems to be
> more prevalent
> >> in the schools than psychiatric terms.
> >> Darla
> >>
> >> 2012/1/14 Wilson Gray<hwgray at gmail.com>
> >>
> >> Interesting, From a former roommate, a paranoid schizophrenic a
> >> sometime resident of Harvard Med School's McLean Hospital, I'd
> >> gathered that _quiet room_ was the proper term for "padded cell."
> >>
> >> Youneverknow.
> >>
> >> --
> >> -Wilson

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