7.0068 Qs: English Institute; ZEERUST; E-Kids; Dartmouth (4/75)

Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Thu, 24 Jun 1993 12:29:07 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 7, No. 0068. Thursday, 24 Jun 1993.


(1) Date: Sat, 19 Jun 93 14:05:34 IST (14 lines)
From: griffin <GRIFFIN@TAUNIVM>
Subject: English Institute

(2) Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1993 11:03:40 +0800 (13 lines)
From: bwillis@uniwa.uwa.edu.au
Subject: ZEERUST?

(3) Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1993 15:30:28 +0200 (32 lines)
From: jon.lanestedt@ilf.uio.no (Jon Lanestedt)
Subject: Electronic, interactive stories for kids

(4) Date: 22 Jun 93 11:40:06 BST (16 lines)
From: D Mealand <ewnt05@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Dartmouth address please

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Date: Sat, 19 Jun 93 14:05:34 IST
From: griffin <GRIFFIN@TAUNIVM>
Subject: English Institute


I'm interested in attending this year's English Institute, need already to
make plane reservations, but haven't as yet received any information.

Can anyone tell me the dates, the participants, and the topics; and/or send an
email address for the organizers? Your aid is greatly appreciated.

Robert J. Griffin
English
Tel Aviv University
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Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1993 11:03:40 +0800
From: bwillis@uniwa.uwa.edu.au
Subject: ZEERUST?

I have it on good authority that some people (I am not quite sure which)
use a word of whose spelling I am unsure, but which seems to be pronounced
ZEERUST, and which refers to the quality, like the streamlining of
furniture and buildings in the 30s, which gives these commodities
absolutely whizzbang up-to-dateness, but makes them terribly vulnerable to
datedness and desuetude. Does anyone know anything about this?

Brian Willis, the University of Western Australia

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Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1993 15:30:28 +0200
From: jon.lanestedt@ilf.uio.no (Jon Lanestedt)
Subject: Electronic, interactive stories for kids

Elaine and Allen,
I sent this message to humanist@brownvm.brown.edu on June 17. I never got
any confirmation message back ("Your mailing for Humanist has been
submitted...") though so maybe something went wrong. In case it did here it
is again.

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Does anybody know if any critical work is done--books, articles,
dissertations, whatever--on the emerging genre of interactive childrens'
stories to be read/interacted with on a computer screen? The kind of
software I have in mind is such interactive multimedia products
(sound/speech/music, color animation, sometimes text) as Broderbund's
CD-ROM series of "Living Books" and _Amanda Stories_, _The Little Noisy
House_ etc. from the Voyager Company (a whole bunch of software publishers
now sell such products).
Sincerely,
Jon Lanestedt
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Jon Lanestedt
Department of Linguistics
University of Oslo Voice: +47-22 85 48 99
P.O.Box 1102 Blindern Fax: +47-22 85 69 19
N-0317 Oslo, Norway Email: jon.lanestedt@ilf.uio.no
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Date: 22 Jun 93 11:40:06 BST
From: D Mealand <ewnt05@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Dartmouth address please


If anyone has an address for a faculty member at dartmouth college
I would be most grateful if the e-mail address could be sent to me
(not to Humanist) so that I can contact one of my Edinburgh colleagues
who has just gone there for the summer.

Thanks in advance David Mealand
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