From: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org (stillpt-digest) To: stillpt-digest@smoe.org Subject: stillpt-digest V3 #93 Reply-To: stillpt@smoe.org Sender: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk stillpt-digest Saturday, May 26 2001 Volume 03 : Number 093 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: missing some stuff [Kathleen Dalton-Woodbury ] Re: rappeling and language [Kathleen Dalton-Woodbury ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 06:35:51 -0600 From: Kathleen Dalton-Woodbury Subject: Re: missing some stuff >Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 22:21:06 -0400 >From: meredith >Subject: Re: missing some stuff > >All stillpt digests are archived online at http://www.smoe.org/lists/stillpt. Cool! Thank you, Meredith. Phaedre/Kathleen workshop@burgoyne.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 07:12:19 -0600 From: Kathleen Dalton-Woodbury Subject: Re: rappeling and language >Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 13:03:06 -0400 (EDT) >From: "Donald G. Keller" >Subject: b/re UPN stuff > >They "repel" up the wall?? The first time I read that, I >thought it meant they =bounced off=. What the writer meant to write was >"rappel," right? > >(I just did what the writer =should= have done and went to the dictionary; >my first impulse was to spell it "rapelle," which is also wrong. >Furthermore, the verb refers only to =descending= via rope, so one cannot >"rappel up.") Actually, you can "rappel up" as long as you have the rope already in place and you are using something called an "ascender." My husband has done it many times (usually when the rope snags on something at the top of the rappel and he has to go back up to unsnag it so they can pull the rope down). He says you should never rappel without ascenders (a friend of his was doing that and ended up falling 40 feet--and surviving, miraculously). >Are we doomed to this degeneration of language? Just >yesterday I read a sports columnist who "nearly wretched" at >something he saw on TV. I assume he meant "retched," but I >can't be certain. If I may add to the list: "alright" instead of "all right" "nauseous" instead of "nauseated" Phaedre/Kathleen workshop@burgoyne.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 21:19:48 -0400 From: meredith Subject: o/on the topic of language Hi, On the topic of the degeneration of the English language, an apropos cartoon: http://www.angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif ======================================= Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth "things are more beautiful when they're obscure" -- veda hille ======================================= Live At The House O'Muzak House Concert Series http://www.smoe.org/meth/muzak.html ------------------------------ End of stillpt-digest V3 #93 ****************************