Deborah Harrell wrote:
>
> --- David Hobby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Deborah Harrell wrote:
> > >
> > > Lo, these many years ago, in college Organic
> > > Chemistry, I and a friend created the 'O-chem
> >>Personality Wheel,' with categories from
> Ortho-normal
> > > (your basic staid and sedate microbiology major)
> on
> > > to Para-normal (included mushroom-tea drinkers)
> and
> > > Epi-normal (off-the-ringers who were fun at
> parties
> > >but not invited to all-night study/gossip
> sessions);
> > > Abi-normals were of course those too weird to
> > relate even to D&Ders or SCAers! ;D
> > >
> > > Debbi
> > > Meta-normal Herself Maru :)
> >
> > I give, what does meta-normal mean then?
>
> <LOL>
> Well, as my friends and I didn't want to consider
> ourselves 'normal' 'weird' *or* 'sedate,' Meta-normals
> were of course practically perfect in every way...
> <huge grin>
>
> On Casual Aquaintence I'd Seem To Be Ortho-normal
> Actually Maru ;D
>
So "ortho" means "close", "meta" means "medium" and
"para" means "as far away as possible"? Note that Chemists
can not be perfectly normal, as two groups have to attach to
different carbons in the ring...
I like "abi", which is probably not actually Greek.
---David
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