Subject: Re: Basketball with the Big Boys [was RE: Words, words, words]
From: LR Pearson, Arts 99 (lp9616@bristol.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Jan 25 2000 - 13:59:49 EST
On Tue, 25 Jan 2000 12:53:03 -0500 Tim O'Connor <oconnort@nyu.edu>
wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 09:19:04AM -0600, Baader, Cecilia wrote:
>
> > ObSal: Part of the reason why Franny's letter bothers me so much is that I
> > can't reconcile a girl who would write a sloppy letter like that couldn't be
> > a member of the Glass family. They're all such lovers of words, I can't
> > think that Franny Glass would be so careless. But if the Franny in "Franny"
> > is not Franny Glass...
>
> That letter has always bothered me, too. And it's funny that it took me
> about a hundred times of reading it to catch that when she says she's
> going "i.e. crazy," after using "i.e." in a sentence, I thought she meant
> "i.e." weirdly modifying "crazy" -- then I realized she meant she's
> been using "i.e." a lot lately.
>
> A slow learner,
>
> --tim
>
I made that misk=-take too. ANd I still like my first reading of it.
Love, L-R
----------------------
LR Pearson, Arts 99
lp9616@bristol.ac.uk
-
* Unsubscribing? Mail majordomo@roughdraft.org with the message
* UNSUBSCRIBE BANANAFISH
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b25 : Mon Feb 28 2000 - 08:38:03 EST