08-15-08 09:54: Ardith Hinton to James Bradley "Thinking Styles"

OK... Part one of catch up.

 AH> "What's Fidonet?" or "How do you quote what others have
 AH> said?"  I guess they felt intimidated by the real techies.

There's a natural order, isn't there. The advanced forget what it was like to
be green, and the green learn from those just out of "101". Like that young
base player that taught me a new way to wrap a cord though, sometime you just
never know where an 'edumication' can come from. 


RE: English spelling when adding suffixes
 JB>  I remember the day Mrs. Simpson taught us this, and I
 JB>  figured right there that I had little interest or talent

 AH>           Perhaps Mrs. Simpson didn't think the way you do.  I had much

That *was* grade one, so I gathered more evaluation than advancement was
occuring.



 AH> "Cat has big hungry."  While it may not be technically
 AH> correct, it is functional....  ;-)

Like me bobbling through Ukrainian, that "I know very small Ukrainian." It
turned out I *did* know the word for "little", but they were readily
exchangeable in my mind.


 AH> that the Chinese languages use homophones as well.  The
 AH> difference is conveyed orally by the pitch.  What he had
 AH> actually said came across as nonsense to a Chinese
 AH> audience, although they realized what he was trying to
 AH> say....  :-)

Having heard the blunder, likely many times before, provided plenty of
entertainment.

... James
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