6.0663 Rs: Stress; Calvin; Menu S/W; Quotes; Printers (7/127)

Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Fri, 9 Apr 1993 16:31:23 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 6, No. 0663. Friday, 9 Apr 1993.


(1) Date: Wed, 07 Apr 93 13:01 CET (16 lines)
From: LETTVA@RULMVS.LEIDENUNIV.NL
Subject: Re: 6.0645 Rs: Stress and Street Names (6/112)

(2) Date: Wed, 07 Apr 93 17:21:15 +0200 (16 lines)
From: "Gunhild Viden" <viden@trubaduren.hum.gu.se>
Subject: Stress and tones

(3) Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1993 18:17:50 -0400 (EDT) (14 lines)
From: P_MCNAMARA@UNHH.UNH.EDU
Subject: RE Street Stress

(4) Date: Thu, 08 Apr 93 09:28:05 EDT (12 lines)
From: Mark <MWOLLAE@YALEVM>
Subject: Calvin and Hobbes

(5) Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1993 20:44:55 +0300 (EET-DST) (24 lines)
From: LBJUDY@VMSA.TECHNION.AC.IL (Judy Koren)
Subject: RE: 6.0641 Qs: Menu S/W

(6) Date: Wed, 7 Apr 93 18:19:01 CST (8 lines)
From: "James Marchand" <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Library Quotations

(7) Date: 7 Apr 93 09:21:51 EDT (37 lines)
From: Otmar.K.E.Foelsche@Dartmouth.EDU (Otmar K. E. Foelsche)
Subject: Re: 6.0648 Rs: Printers

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Date: Wed, 07 Apr 93 13:01 CET
From: LETTVA@RULMVS.LEIDENUNIV.NL
Subject: Re: 6.0645 Rs: Stress and Street Names (6/112)

Many years ago I read something about stress pattern in
Dutch street names. I do not remember the details, but
1. stress in Dutch street names is irregular,
2. stress is local, in the sense that street names in certain
towns and villages are stressed differently by locals and others.
I can confirm this: Some street names from Rotterdam are usually
wrongly stressed when pronounced in radio and TV.

Andrea de Leeuw van Weenen
Dept of Comparative Linguistics
Universiteit Leiden PO Box 9515, 2300 RA Leiden
The Netherlands, LETTVA@rulmvs.LeidenUniv.nl
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Date: Wed, 07 Apr 93 17:21:15 +0200
From: "Gunhild Viden" <viden@trubaduren.hum.gu.se>
Subject: Stress and tones

James Marchand gave a description of how to explain the tones of
the word "bomull" to American students, which I didn't quite
understand; could you please do it again? The subject is fascinating,
since differences in tone are obviously very hard to grasp for non-
native speakers; there are many people who even after many years
in Sweden cannot hear the difference between \anden (the spirit)
and /anden (the duck). Does anybody have experience of learning
the 4 (?) tones of Chinese?

Gunhild Viden
University of Goteborg, Sweden

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Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1993 18:17:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: P_MCNAMARA@UNHH.UNH.EDU
Subject: RE Street Stress


I just wanted to cast my vote in favor of Eric Johnson's interpretation.
The stress on non-"street" suffixes of address indicators has nothing to
do with snobbery or some other culturally "deep" phenomenon. It's origin
lies in the pragmatics of communication: stress the part of the message that
has the contrary=to-expectations value. For this is the part that the
listener is most likely to superimpose the wrong value on--thus arriving
at the wrong destination, literally!

Paul McNamara
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Date: Thu, 08 Apr 93 09:28:05 EDT
From: Mark <MWOLLAE@YALEVM>
Subject: Calvin and Hobbes

Why the names Calvin and Hobbes? I've always assumed widespread recognition
of a chiastic irony: the appropriate name for the imaginary tiger, clearly
the conscience of the two, has been interchanged with the name of the anarchic
child, who is nasty, brutish, and short.

Mark Wollaeger
Yale University
mwollae@yalevm.bitnet
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Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1993 20:44:55 +0300 (EET-DST)
From: LBJUDY@VMSA.TECHNION.AC.IL (Judy Koren)
Subject: RE: 6.0641 Qs: Signatures; Menu S/W; 18c HyperCard; Printer (4/73)

Re: Willard McCarty's search for a menu program: there are several
available as shareware or public domain; e.g. automenu; dmenu; and
several more for Real Cash, e.g. Saber Menu which is supposed to do
all sorts of wonderful things but costs several hundred $. Check out
a DOS ftp site, e.g. one of the several Simtel mirror sites (e.g.
oak.oakland.edu or wuarchive.wustl.edu are two I visit occasionally),
there should be a suitable subdirectory somewhere under /pub/dos (or
is it /pub/pc, I always forget?).

Mind you, if all you need is to run .exe files and return, that old
standby, the set of batch files called 1.bat, 2.bat etc. should work
fine; each calls the relevant .exe file and has as its last line
"type mainmenu.txt" or whatever you've called your main menu; when
the user exits from the .exe file, command returns to the batch file
and you get your main menu back; you can have choices on the main
menu that call up sub-menus by the same logic. But since Willard
clearly knows all this and sounds unenthusiastic, perhaps he's looking
for a menu program that will do weird and wonderful things besides??

Judy Koren, Haifa.
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Date: Wed, 7 Apr 93 18:19:01 CST
From: "James Marchand" <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Library Quotations

My own favorite is _A Librarian's Collacon_, An Anthology of Quotations and
Aphorisms reflecting the Moral Philosophy of the Library Profession,
compiled by D. W. Krummel, Preliminary Edition (Urbana: UI Library, 1971).
It has more quotations on libraries than you can shake a stick at.
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Date: 7 Apr 93 09:21:51 EDT
From: Otmar.K.E.Foelsche@Dartmouth.EDU (Otmar K. E. Foelsche)
Subject: Re: 6.0648 Rs: Printers; A-4; Proverbia (6/99)

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Date: Fri, 2 Apr 93 20:09:54 CST
From: "James Marchand" <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: printer
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I do not know of any printer for personal use that depends on the frequency
of the power. Any US printer for 110 volts and 60 cycles will work on 110
volts and 50 cycles. In other words, a step down transformer from 220/240 to
110 will work. Some printers have automatically switching power supplies that
make it possible to plug them directly into 220/240 volts. And there are some
printers which have a little switch for that purpose.

The Franzius equipment cannot be used, unless it is a real transformer.
Lowering the voltage in these inexpensive devices also changes the
electricity from AC to some kind of DC that can be disastrous for computing
equipment.

The rumor that some printing equipment did not work at 50Hz was possibly
created by Apple Computer years ago to discourage customers in Europe from
buying equipment in the US and run it with a transformer in Europe. Most
Apple equipment now has universal power supplies. A transformer for runing a
small printer costs between 20 and 25 US dollars.

We have had no problems with printers and other computing equipment in
Russia, Germany, France, and England using transformers or universal power
supplies. We advise to buy a European "cold" extension cord, which plugs in
into most US equipment without difficulty. ("Kaltgeraete" Verbindungskabel in
German!)

Otmar Foelsche