End of ADS-L Digest - 12 Feb 1996 to 13 Feb 1996

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There are 29 messages totalling 721 lines in this issue.



Topics of the day:



 1. new word

 2. two questions: boink and fish shanty (6)

 3. Monkey Wards and Kame-apart -Reply

 4. More on warp speed (2)

 5. <No subject given>

 6. Where's Wayne? (2)

 7. split infinitives (2)

 8. split infinitive (2)

 9. boink/bonk

 10. Dirty Jokes and Color Metaphors

 11. two questions: boink and fish shanty

 12. subculture terms

 13. boink

 14. two questions: boink and fish shan (4)

 15. jump & boink

 16. bonk

 17. "NICE" and "KIND" and all That There Good Stuff



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Date:  Tue, 13 Feb 1996 21:11:40 -0800

From:  SETH SKLAREY <crissiet[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]IX.NETCOM.COM>

Subject: Re: new word



Or exiles from or to Cyberia



-Seth Sklarey



>In Message Mon, 12 Feb 1996 09:14:43 -0500,

> "Gregory J. Pulliam" <HUMPULLIAM[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MINNA.ACC.IIT.EDU> writes:

>

>>Has "netizen" been posted to the new word list yet? It appeared in Sunday's

>>Chicago Tribune, with the derivation netizen=(inter)NET + (cit)IZEN. I

>>forget the section it was in, but it was prominently boxed, so it'd be

>>pretty easy to find--had I not already recycled the paper. Sorry.

>>Greg Pulliam

>>Illinois Institute of Technology

>>Chicago

>

>So we are netizens of "cyburbia," as Andrew Shapiro of the Nation calls it.

>

>Luanne

>

>

>Luanne von Schneidemesser, (608) 263-2748

>DARE, 6129 Helen C. White Hall, 600 North Park, Madison, WI 53706

>lvonschn[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]facstaff.wisc.edu

>

>