[1] From: David Mighetto <mighetto@vinga.hum.gu.se> (15)
Subject: Bimodal electronic dictionary: Digital sound &
ordinary spelling
[2] From: Haradda@aol.com (19)
Subject: Tertium Quid, Loco Foco and "Scholars of the Night"
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Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 16:59:56 -0400
From: David Mighetto <mighetto@vinga.hum.gu.se>
Subject: Bimodal electronic dictionary: Digital sound & ordinary spelling
2 May, 1996 DM
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Humanist Discussion Group <humanist@lists.Princeton.EDU>
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Dear netters,
For an imminent virtual classroom project with Swedish students, we are in
great need of an electronic dictionary which is bimodal, i.e. represents
lexical entries in both speech (that is, digital sound) and writing
(ordinary spelling). We are primarily interested in material for Spanish,
English and Swedish, (monolingual as well as bilingual). Should you possess
or know of any such software (demos, beta-versions etc. are fine), please
drop us an e-line!
Many thanks in advance,
David Mighetto (Goteborg University, Sweden)
mighetto@rom.gu.se
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Date: Fri, 3 May 1996 22:38:45 -0400
From: Haradda@aol.com
Subject: Tertium Quid, Loco Foco and "Scholars of the Night"
In my reading I came across an interesting quote from a fellow called John
McClaughry. He describing himself says," I am a 1700's Virginia republican,
an 1800 Tertium Quid, and 1830s Loco Foco, and 1850s Republican, an 1890s
western progressive, an 1930s agrarian distributist, and today a plain old
decentralist agrarian Reaganaut." As near as I can tell he is calling
himself a populist libertarian.
Anyway my questions are what was a Tertium Quid or a Loco Foco? I found a
reference that Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman and William
Leggett were members of the Loco Foco's. Can anyone direct me to any books
or articles shed more light on what the Tertium Quid or Loco Foco groups
were, who was involved and what were the political goals of those involved?
A completely different subject is my next question. What was the
"Scholars of the Night"? I understand that it is a reference from
Shakespeare, but that it referes to an actual scientific, humanistic group
that included John Dee, Christopher Marlowe and others. I have been
rereading some of Francis Yates's books and the inplication is that it was a
forerunning of the Royal Society. Can anyone direct me to any books or
articles that could help find more information about these subjects.
Thank you
David Reed haradda@aol.com