Re: OT Re: Conlang-to-body-shape connections

On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 23:25, Douglas Koller, Latin & French wrote:
> Roger writes:
>
> >Lekramon minda, Yitzik and Kou.  But oh you kids....complain, complain.
> >
> >40 is nothing. (Though I once knew someone who burst into tears on his
> >38th...but he was weird).
A handful of days before my uncle's 40th birthday, he killed himself.

> Kids, schmids (Thanks, Roger. Seems we'll be revisiting this topic
> 5/23, he, he, he...)
See now, without an 'on the' before it, and forgetting that Americans
can't write short dates, I read that as five on twenty-three[1]. Took me
ages to work it it meant the twenty-third of the fifth. I'll never
understand the logic[2] behind it. I mean, we quite happily do May 10
and 10.05.03 (which is read, as I indicated, 'the tenth of the fifth oh
three').

[1]: yes, i have been doing too much maths. I was told today that I
should be a teacher.[3]

[2]: Yeah, I know logic and language do not necessarily meet.

[3]: no I won't become a teacher. My mother's one, so that automatically
rules me out; and there's nothing in high school maths that is even
vaguely interesting. And had being a tutorer/lecturer/practice class
assistant (or equiv. thereof) been intended, i'm not doing maths after
this semester... A fact I should not be disappointed about (maths being
a subject to be done and hated, not enjoyed), but I am.

Tristan.

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