5.0731 Rs: Language; Scooters; Monkeys; Bukowski; "F" (6/98)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Fri, 28 Feb 1992 00:30:19 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 5, No. 0731. Friday, 28 Feb 1992.


(1) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 92 17:41:21 -0500 (24 lines)
From: "David A. Hoekema" <hoekema@brahms.udel.edu>
Subject: Non-sexist language

(2) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 92 18:52:43 GMT (19 lines)
From: Rainer Henrich <K145310@CZHRZU1A>
Subject: Re: 5.0697 Qs: (Various) (6/113)

(3) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 92 12:27 EST (10 lines)
From: <DACOLEMAN@FAIR1>
Subject: RE: 5.0697 Qs: (Various) (6/113)

(4) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 92 22:03:54 EST (11 lines)
From: Stephen Clausing <SCLAUS@YALEVM>
Subject: monkeys at typewriter

(5) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 92 23:21:52 EST (19 lines)
From: Ed Haupt <haupt@pilot.njin.net>
Subject: Bukowski

(6) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 92 06:08:22 EST (15 lines)
From: Bernard.van't.Hul@um.cc.umich.edu
Subject: 5.0708 ... one last Fword

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Date: Tue, 11 Feb 92 17:41:21 -0500
From: "David A. Hoekema" <hoekema@brahms.udel.edu>
Subject: Non-sexist language

The American Philosophical Association's Committee on the Status of
Women prepared a brief "set of Guidelines for Non-Sexist Use of
Language" a few years ago (sometimes inadvertently referred to as "Guide
to Avoiding Non-Sexist Language" by our members). It is not an official
policy document but has been adopted by all three of our divisions for
distribution to members preparing papers for presentation at the
meetings. Its main virtues, in comparison to other guides that I have
seen, are its brevity and its tone--it points out the reasons why
certain locutions may be offensive and suggests various ways around
them. The principal author was Virginia Warren of Chapman College.
Single copies are available free from our office. Since I am at the
moment the only person connected to e-mail, please send a postcard or
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--David Hoekema <hoekema@brahms.udel.edu>
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Date: Wed, 19 Feb 92 18:52:43 GMT
From: Rainer Henrich <K145310@CZHRZU1A>
Subject: Re: 5.0697 Qs: (Various) (6/113)

Re: Scooter

Swiss German dialect has the French word "Trottinett". In Germany
this toy is called a "Roller". It was popular when I was a child
(20 years ago), but today it seems to be out-of-date.


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Date: Tue, 25 Feb 92 12:27 EST
From: <DACOLEMAN@FAIR1>
Subject: RE: 5.0697 Qs: (Various) (6/113)


I'm shocked to hear that scooters aren't very popular in the US these
days.

Rip Van Winkle

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Date: Wed, 19 Feb 92 22:03:54 EST
From: Stephen Clausing <SCLAUS@YALEVM>
Subject: monkeys at typewriter


As far as I know, Eddington invented the idea of monkeys pounding away
at random at the typewriter. For a more detailed discussion of this, see
William Bennett's book "Scientific and engineering problem-solving with
the Computer". I have an article pending with CHum on this very subject
which takes Bennett 's work one step further, so, with luck, we may be hearing
more about this subject soon.
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Date: Wed, 19 Feb 92 23:21:52 EST
From: Ed Haupt <haupt@pilot.njin.net>
Subject: Bukowski

Bukowski is not exactly mainstream. Finding him in any place closer to
the Booboisie than the 8th Street Bookstore in East Greenwich Village
would surprise me.

Secondary stuff might focus on "Barfly," the putative celebration of a
typical Bukowski ramble.

Likely, too, that more stuff will be found in Europe. I remember vaguely
a New York Times Magazine article which seemed to be scolding the French
for liking Mickey Rourke and Mickey Mouse better than Americans do.

Last trivia. When I was in Germany in 1988, you could scarcely avoid
the near continuous presentation of Barfly in the *Alternativen Kinos*.

Ed Haupt
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Date: Thu, 20 Feb 92 06:08:22 EST
From: Bernard.van't.Hul@um.cc.umich.edu
Subject: 5.0708 Rank; one last Fword; HumGrad (3/77)

The discovery of Dutch *fokken* by Harry Gaylord's Germanic etymologist
does not exactly afford a "closest word to the Anglo-Saxon," insomuch as
MnE *fuck* is without known Old- OR Middle-English antecedents (as
Allen Walker Read and Sherman McAllister Kuhn ascertained decades ago).
If the brave makers of *The American Heritage Dictionary* were first
among American makers of desk dictionaries to give space to THE Mn
E taboo, their etymologist was himself [*sic*] brave to invent an
etymon -- and to call it "Middle English."

Yes, Virginia, like Santa Claus -- who is also Dutch.