Ah, I forget about the Celts, which I shouldn't - especially because of Asterix chez les Normands.

Bet you won't forget them again.

Maybe. Another thing is that the local football, no
make that basketball team is called the Celtics,
pronounced Sellticks. Also, it is said that there's a

I've definatly heard of them, long before I encountered the Celts.

With me it was the opposite. I don't think I'd heard
of the Celtics until I moved to Boston.

provision in somebody's will that funded the Harvard
Celtic Languages and Literatures department that
stipulated that the name be pronounced Selltick,

I'd have turned that money down.

You'll never be the treasurer or a university!

which strikes me as an infringement on academic
freedom. My friend Jack, who was head of the government
department there, bullheadedly persisted in referring
to the sports club as the Keltics, perhaps to compensate.

I like that. (G)

Sometimes I too do stuff to compensate for what
I see as the idiocy of others. I don't know if
it does any good, but it makes me feel better.

When I was doing my thesis on Old French poetry, some
of the scholarship was from Classical Germany, and some
of the sources were printed in Fraktur, so I learned to
pick out the letters, which though it worked made the
translation process into a multistep drudgery. I can
still sort of sort of read German, though not Fraktur.

The modern script is easy to read. The older version is hard, even for
those brought up with it as my friend was. When her generation is gone,
the older script will probably be forgotten except by scholars who will
have to struggle thru it.

In my current degraded state, I read German in
Fraktur not much worse than in ordinary modern
type (actually fairly badly in either case).

Yes, but we know people who can read it.

Read or transliterate? The former is an accomplishment.

Read it--remember, we know a number of linguists from Steve's time in
the Army. One person, after getting out, was getting a Master's in
Russian.

Ah. It's still an accomplishment.

Did my accounts, and it looks like barring massive
increases in expenditures, the dough will last a
decade or so.

That's helpful to know.

It makes for less uncertainty, but whether it'll
actually turn out to be helpful, who knows.

cats a couple weeks ago. At the end, I was wheezing
like a smoker.

I'd be doing likewise, but enjoying the fuzz therapy.

I haven't actually regained full voice, though it's
been three weeks now.

Not fun; I've not encountered any furries recently.

It appears that there's something else going on -
not serious, I hope.

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Hi Michael,

Ah, I forget about the Celts, which I shouldn't -

especially > ML> > ML> because of Asterix chez les Normands.

Bet you won't forget them again.

Maybe. Another thing is that the local football, no
make that basketball team is called the Celtics,
pronounced Sellticks. Also, it is said that there's a

I've definatly heard of them, long before I encountered the Celts.

With me it was the opposite. I don't think I'd heard
of the Celtics until I moved to Boston.

Dad used to buy the NY Times every day; I used to read the sports
section more than the front page news. (G)

provision in somebody's will that funded the Harvard
Celtic Languages and Literatures department that
stipulated that the name be pronounced Selltick,

I'd have turned that money down.

You'll never be the treasurer or a university!

No but that offends my sensibility on several levels.

which strikes me as an infringement on academic
freedom. My friend Jack, who was head of the government
department there, bullheadedly persisted in referring
to the sports club as the Keltics, perhaps to compensate.

I like that. (G)

Sometimes I too do stuff to compensate for what
I see as the idiocy of others. I don't know if
it does any good, but it makes me feel better.

Which is what matters in the long run.

The modern script is easy to read. The older version is hard, even

for > those brought up with it as my friend was. When her generation
is gone, > the older script will probably be forgotten except by
scholars who will > have to struggle thru it.

In my current degraded state, I read German in
Fraktur not much worse than in ordinary modern
type (actually fairly badly in either case).

(G)

Yes, but we know people who can read it.

Read or transliterate? The former is an accomplishment.

Read it--remember, we know a number of linguists from Steve's time

in > the Army. One person, after getting out, was getting a Master's
in Russian.

Ah. It's still an accomplishment.

Very much so.

Did my accounts, and it looks like barring massive
increases in expenditures, the dough will last a
decade or so.

That's helpful to know.

It makes for less uncertainty, but whether it'll
actually turn out to be helpful, who knows.

time will tell.

cats a couple weeks ago. At the end, I was wheezing
like a smoker.

I'd be doing likewise, but enjoying the fuzz therapy.

I haven't actually regained full voice, though it's
been three weeks now.

Not fun; I've not encountered any furries recently.

It appears that there's something else going on -
not serious, I hope.

Sounds like you need to get it checked out. Might be a local seasonal
allergy or something else giving you problems but you won't know for
sure until you see a doctor.


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