Re: British Latin
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 7, 2001, 0:26 |
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Yoon Ha Lee scripsit:
> CUNY is an abbreviation for...? <puzzled look>
The City University of New York, which is composed of about 20-odd
2-year and 4-year colleges in various parts of
the city. The oldest of these is City College,
which I attended 1977-1980 (but didn't quite get a degree).
> Hey, at least it's a nice nifty Latin motto. Cornell...<shaking head and
> sighing> It's all English to me.
High above Cayuga's ditches
Comes a mighty smell;
Fifty thousand sons of bitches
Call themselves Cornell!
That was my father's version of the Cornell song -- he went
to the University of Pennsylvania. But my mother taught
at Cornell in academic 1967-68, and I went to elementary
school there.
--
John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore
--Douglas Hofstadter
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