Hi Michael,

 ML> >  ML> >  ML> Ah, I forget about the Celts, which I shouldn't -
 ML> especially >  ML> >  ML> because of Asterix chez les Normands.
 ML> >  ML> > Bet you won't forget them again.
 ML> >  ML> Maybe. Another thing is that the local football, no
 ML> >  ML> make that basketball team is called the Celtics,
 ML> >  ML> pronounced Sellticks. Also, it is said that there's a
 ML> > I've definatly heard of them, long before I encountered the Celts.

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

Dad used to buy the NY Times every day; I used to read the sports
section more than the front page news. (G)

 ML> >  ML> provision in somebody's will that funded the Harvard
 ML> >  ML> Celtic Languages and Literatures department that
 ML> >  ML> stipulated that the name be pronounced Selltick,
 ML> > I'd have turned that money down.

 ML> You'll never be the treasurer or a university!

No but that offends my sensibility on several levels.

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

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

Which is what matters in the long run.

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

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

(G)


 ML> >  ML> > Yes, but we know people who can read it.
 ML> >  ML> Read or transliterate? The former is an accomplishment.
 ML> > Read it--remember, we know a number of linguists from Steve's time
 ML> in > the Army. One person, after getting out, was getting a Master's
 ML> in Russian.

 ML> Ah. It's still an accomplishment.

Very much so.


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

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

 ML> >  ML> >  ML> cats a couple weeks ago. At the end, I was wheezing
 ML> >  ML> >  ML> like a smoker.
 ML> >  ML> > I'd be doing likewise, but enjoying the fuzz therapy.
 ML> >  ML> I haven't actually regained full voice, though it's
 ML> >  ML> been three weeks now.
 ML> > Not fun; I've not encountered any furries recently.

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

Sounds like you need to get it checked out. Might be a local seasonal
allergy or something else giving you problems but you won't know for
sure until you see a doctor.


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Ruth
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