5.0438 Qs: CAI; Addresses; Quotes; Archetypes; TLG... (8/145)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Mon, 11 Nov 1991 18:33:03 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 5, No. 0438. Monday, 11 Nov 1991.


(1) Date: Wed, 06 Nov 91 14:55:23 SET (9 lines)
From: SIMION@IVEUNCC
Subject: address for Prentice-Hall UK wanted

(2) Date: Wed, 06 Nov 91 10:26 CST (11 lines)
From: A10PRR1@NIU.BITNET
Subject: PC Script

(3) Date: Thu, 07 Nov 91 07:52:53 MST (17 lines)
From: "don l. f. nilsen" <ATDFN@ASUACAD>
Subject: Archetypes, Prototypes, and/or Stereotypes

(4) Date: Fri, 8 Nov 91 11:03:28 EST (60 lines)
From: weinshan@cps.msu.edu
Subject: Quotes on Errors

(5) Date: Wed, 6 Nov 91 14:27 -0400 (10 lines)
From: WARMCN@AC.DAL.CA
Subject: Computer-Assisted-Instruction (CAI)

(6) Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1991 16:59:09 -0500 (20 lines)
From: warkent@epas.utoronto.ca (Germaine Warkentin)
Subject: Query: "Where the hare layed"

(7) Date: Sun, 10 Nov 91 22:58:57 EST (7 lines)
From: "Chris Edwards" <uniobun@buacca>
Subject: Russian Language Aids

(8) Date: Mon, 11 Nov 91 11:58:36 EST (11 lines)
From: kish@jove.rutgers.edu (Kish)
Subject: TLG (Thesaurs Linguae Graecae)

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Date: Wed, 06 Nov 91 14:55:23 SET
From: SIMION@IVEUNCC
Subject: address for Prentice-Hall UK wanted

I'm looking for the address (email if possible) of Prentice-Hall
International (UK) Ltd., London.

Thanks
Marco SImionato
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Date: Wed, 06 Nov 91 10:26 CST
From: A10PRR1@NIU.BITNET
Subject: PC Script

I've heard that there is now a PC version of the Waterloo Script
text formatter. Does anyone know anything about this?
Alternatively, does anyone have a phone number for someone at
Waterloo who might know about this? Thanks.

Philip Rider
Northern Illinois University
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Date: Thu, 07 Nov 91 07:52:53 MST
From: "don l. f. nilsen" <ATDFN@ASUACAD>
Subject: Archetypes, Prototypes, and/or Stereotypes

Hi:
Is anyone out there doing work on Archetypes, Prototypes, and/or
Stereotypes?
How about Master Tropes--Metaphor, Irony, Metonymy, Synesthesia?

=-) ;-> 8*) {^_^}
Don L. F. Nilsen
<ATDFN@ASUACAD.BITNET>, (602) 965-7592
Executive Secretary
International Society for Humor Studies
English Department
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-0302
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Date: Fri, 8 Nov 91 11:03:28 EST
From: weinshan@cps.msu.edu
Subject: Quotes on Errors

Quotation: Mistakes/errors are not moral failings


I am looking for a quotation for which I cannot remember either the
exact wording or the person. The substance of the quote is that
mistakes/errors are not failures (moral or otherwise) but instead the
raw materials upon which we base our exploration of the universe.


The intent here is to reassure students that the errors they make in
designing computer programs or experiments are simply stepping stones
in the process of design.


Here are some of the quotes we have turned up from standard sources,
but none of them matches the one I half remember.




"A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are
volitional and are the portals of discovery."
--- James Joyce,
Ulysses (1922) p. 375


"To make mistakes as we are on the way to knowledge
is far more honorable than to escape making them
through never having set out to seek knowledge."
--- Richard Chemevix Trench


"It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes,
I suppose." --- Joseph Conrad


"Mistakes are often the best teachers."
--- Froude, Short Studies
on great subjects


"Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its
own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself."
--- Vilfredo Pareto, 1848-1923
commenting on Kepler



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Dr. Don Weinshank weinshan@cps.msu.edu
Computer Science Dept. weinshank@msuegr.bitnet
A-732 Wells Hall weinshankdj@clvax1.cl.msu.edu
Michigan State University COMPUSERVE 76154,704
East Lansing MI 48824 USA GEnie XTX90068
Phone (517) 353-0831 FAX (517) 336-1061
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Date: Wed, 6 Nov 91 14:27 -0400
From: WARMCN@AC.DAL.CA
Subject: Computer-Assisted-Instruction (CAI)


Sorry to raise an old subject, but I need to learn something about
what is available in Computer-Assisted-Instruction (CAI) to cover
the basics of grammar and composition. Perhaps somebody can direct
me to the appropriate log if this has already been discussed in
detail. David McNeil (WARMCN@DALAC)
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Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1991 16:59:09 -0500
From: warkent@epas.utoronto.ca (Germaine Warkentin)
Subject: Query: "Where the hare layed"

Here is a query for my friends on Humanist and C18-L: in the text
(ca. 1669) of his fourth voyage, the "Lake Superior Voyage," the
explorer Pierre Esprit Radisson observes of a particular location,
"this rapid was formerly the dwelling of those with whome we weare,
and consequently we must not aske them if they knew where the hare
layed." I have been annotating this text, and find that this is the
only passage which baffles me completely. Radisson's text is a
controversial one. Most scholars think that he wrote it in French, and
that the text was then translated, but there are good arguments to
suggest that he may have written or dictated it in English. There is
no question that the manuscript reads precisely as above; I have
checked the reading. Is it possible that "where the hare layed" refers to
an English proverb of some sort? Or possibly a French one, rendered into
English? I would be grateful for any help offered.
Germaine Warkentin <warkent@epas.utoronto.ca>

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Date: Sun, 10 Nov 91 22:58:57 EST
From: "Chris Edwards" <uniobun@buacca>
Subject: Russian Language Aids

I am interested in locating software for Russian including a Russian
thesaurus and a Russian spellchecker. A colleague of mine has an interest
in working on a Russian thesaurus if one does not exist.
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Date: Mon, 11 Nov 91 11:58:36 EST
From: kish@jove.rutgers.edu (Kish)
Subject: TLG (Thesaurs Linguae Graecae)


Is there a version of this which is accessible via the internet ? If not,
is it possible to acquire this in HSFS CD format ?

Thanks,
Bill Kish
kish@jove.rutgers.edu