Hi Michael,

 ML> >  ML> Ah, I forget about the Celts, which I shouldn't - especially
 ML> >  ML> because of Asterix chez les Normands.
 ML> > Bet you won't forget them again.

 ML> Maybe. Another thing is that the local football, no
 ML> make that basketball team is called the Celtics,
 ML> pronounced Sellticks. Also, it is said that there's a

I've definatly heard of them, long before I encountered the Celts.

 ML> provision in somebody's will that funded the Harvard
 ML> Celtic Languages and Literatures department that
 ML> stipulated that the name be pronounced Selltick,

I'd have turned that money down.

 ML> which strikes me as an infringement on academic
 ML> freedom. My friend Jack, who was head of the government
 ML> department there, bullheadedly persisted in referring
 ML> to the sports club as the Keltics, perhaps to compensate.

I like that. (G)

 ML> >  ML> >  ML> Interesting. I did a year or so of Classic Greek,
 ML> >  ML> >  ML> which turned out to be useless in modern Greece.
 ML> >  ML> > We found the modern Hebrew written with more curves than the
 ML> >  ML> ancient. By
 ML> >  ML> That would mostly be a fashion issue. You should with
 ML> >  ML> some practice be able to at least transliterate Fraktur
 ML> >  ML> into modern German fonts, for example.
 ML> > Somewhat so, but the old German script is almost impossible to read,
 ML> > even by those brought up on it. Found that out in Frankfurt when I
 ML> > showed a German friend my great grandfather's German Bible from the
 ML> turn > of the 19th/20th century.

 ML> When I was doing my thesis on Old French poetry, some
 ML> of the scholarship was from Classical Germany, and some
 ML> of the sources were printed in Fraktur, so I learned to
 ML> pick out the letters, which though it worked made the
 ML> translation process into a multistep drudgery. I can
 ML> still sort of sort of read German, though not Fraktur.

The modern script is easy to read. The older version is hard, even for
those brought up with it as my friend was. When her generation is gone,
the older script will probably be forgotten except by scholars who will
have to struggle thru it.

 ML> >  ML> > the end of our (one week) trip, Steve was able to read it
 ML> >  ML> somewhat--he'd > only had one semester of it at that point.
 ML> Most >  ML> places were either bi or > multi lingual anyway so it
 ML> wasn't really >  ML> needed.
 ML> >  ML> Unless the bi waas Russian or something!

 ML> Did I type thaat? I've been having bunches of trouble
 ML> with the a key, as half the time it doesn't register
 ML> - the membrane must be worn out -, so I have to hit
 ML> it hard, and then sometimes it registers twice.

 ML> > Yes, but we know people who can read it.

 ML> Read or transliterate? The former is an accomplishment.

Read it--remember, we know a number of linguists from Steve's time in
the Army. One person, after getting out, was getting a Master's in
Russian.

 ML> >  ML> >  ML> >  ML> > Become a ward of the state?
 ML> >  ML> >  ML> >  ML> I'd rather die.
 ML> >  ML> >  ML> > Don't have many other options tho.
 ML> >  ML> >  ML> That is a perfectly okay option.
 ML> >  ML> > As long as you're at peace with it, no problem (except that
 ML> we'd >  ML> miss > you).
 ML> >  ML> Thanks, but it's not exactly right around the corner.
 ML> > Let's hope not anyways. Still, you ought to get those medical check
 ML> ups > done in the reasonably near future.

 ML> Did my accounts, and it looks like barring massive
 ML> increases in expenditures, the dough will last a
 ML> decade or so.

That's helpful to know.

 ML> >  ML> Thanks to a mild browbeat by my friend Carol, I
 ML> >  ML> spent an hour and half volunteering with rescue
 ML> >  ML> cats a couple weeks ago. At the end, I was wheezing
 ML> >  ML> like a smoker.
 ML> > I'd be doing likewise, but enjoying the fuzz therapy.

 ML> I haven't actually regained full voice, though it's
 ML> been three weeks now.

Not fun; I've not encountered any furries recently.

 ML> >  ML> > Wonder how using some stevia for part of the sugar would
 ML> work. >  ML> ketchup > has sugar in it so if I can cut it otherwise,
 ML> it would be >  ML> better for me.
 ML> >  ML> You'd probably have to increase the cornstarch a bit.
 ML> > Sounds logical.

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Ruth
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