[FRIAM] Navajo Math Circles: A Film by George Paul Csicsery

2015-08-06 Thread Tom Johnson
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Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Re: How brand-new words are spreading across America

2015-08-06 Thread Arlo Barnes
On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 11:25 AM, Parks, Raymond wrote: > My wife hates "New and Improved" and news-stories about vehicular homicide > that state "the car hit the group of children at the school bus stop". The > first has been a staple of language comedy - how can something be new and > improved a

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Re: How brand-new words are spreading across America

2015-08-06 Thread glen
On 08/06/2015 12:08 AM, Steve Smith wrote: >> I don't think that's true at all. It's not the voluntary movement that >> concerns most. It's the involuntary movement that concerns most, especially >> liberals, because most liberals (I think) tend to give more weight to >> unintential or coincid

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Re: How brand-new words are spreading across America

2015-08-06 Thread Steve Smith
Glen - "Useless anecdote: I opened the fridge one day and noticed the CO2 regulator on the keg was broken. I asked my office mate about it. He said: "Yeah, the regulator broke." I asked: "It just spontaneously broke all by itself?" He didn't respond." And the keg _in the office_? It just