>  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.

With me it was the opposite. I don't think I'd heard
of the Celtics until I moved to Boston.

>  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.

You'll never be the treasurer or a university!

>  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)

Sometimes I too do stuff to compensate for what
I see as the idiocy of others. I don't know if
it does any good, but it makes me feel better.

>  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.

In my current degraded state, I read German in
Fraktur not much worse than in ordinary modern
type (actually fairly badly in either case).

>  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.

Ah. It's still an accomplishment.

>  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.

It makes for less uncertainty, but whether it'll
actually turn out to be helpful, who knows.

>  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.

It appears that there's something else going on -
not serious, I hope.

Emu Orient
categories: game, main, odd
servings: 3 to 4

2 emu fan fillet steaks (1 lb each)
2 Tb soy sauce
2 ts lime juice, freshly squeezed
1 ts fresh ginger, grated
2 c hot cooked rice 


Marinate emu steaks overnight in refrigerator in 
soy sauce, lime juice and ginger. Slice into 1/2" 
strips; place on plate and cover. In microwave, 
cook on medium setting for 6 min or until done. 
Place meat on rice to serve.

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