Re: OT: CUNY (was: Re: British Latin)

On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Tom Pullman wrote:

> --- Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>
> > wrote:
> >On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Steg Belsky wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, 6 Jun 2001 19:05:28 -0400 Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> writes:
> >> > CUNY is an abbreviation for...?  <puzzled look>
> >>
[snip]
> >> state.  Some parts of Cornell are part of SUNY, if i remember correctly.
> >
> >Yup--darn Aggies.  =^)  J/k.  Cornell's just weird that way.  Not, I
> >suppose, that it would've made a difference to me *personally* if Arts &
> >Sciences were SUNY, since I'd've been out-of-state no matter *what* state
> >I showed up in.
> >
> >Colleges smack dab in a city?  <remembering her one tour of NYC>  I
> >guess.  It's a weird thought, but mainly because I've been in
> >Nowhere--er, Ithaca--for the past 4 years.  ^_^
>
> Try Oxford and Cambridge - the cities were basically built around the
> colleges... (Oxford got much larger as well - there's not much of interest in
> Cambridge apart from the University and stuff connected with it. If you ever
> fancy going sightseeing in one or other of them, go to Oxford, as the
> colleges are a lot prettier and there's more to do when you're fed up with
> looking at them. It's not nearly such a good university though :P)
<wistful look>  Would love to visit either of them, truthfully.  My
sister visited London for a week, and recommended it highly.  (I went to
Greece for my "one cool discovery week trip"--a thing my high school
did.  Though the year *she* went, there was a trip to Mongolia, and I
would've taken *that* if it had existed my year and I could've talked my
parents into it!)  So now I just lust after a trip to the U.K. somewhere
in the distant future.  :-)

Actually, I'm real curious about the University of Birmingham, 'cause for
the post-graduation math dept. reception, Prof. Graeme Bailey (who got
his doctorate from there) showed up in this neat almost Renaissance-man
looking outfit, as opposed to the tamer caps and gowns being sported by
the other profs, and I couldn't help thinking, Dang, if I *were* going
for a doctorate in math (which I'm not), I'd want one of those!

ObConlang: Clothing terms in your conlangs?  <ashamed look>  I can't even
figure out clothing terminology in *English,* and I really want one of
those books that surveys traditional costume from many cultures/countries
(or heck, a big stack of National Geographics) so I can pick and choose.  :-)

YHL

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