Re: [silk] Why don't women write or reply more on Silk?

2013-01-17 Thread Indrajit Gupta
2013 11:29 AM Subject: Re: [silk] Why don't women write or reply more on Silk? Indrajit Gupta bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote: Ah! With this, the mystery thins. Our resident linguist has been reading Perez-Reverte in Spanish: just the sneaky sort of thing she would do. Unfortunately, I have been

Re: [silk] Why don't women write or reply more on Silk?

2013-01-17 Thread Divya Sampath
Indrajit Gupta bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote: T hat was said in respect and envy. Suum cuique, if that stands the weight. Divya Sampath divyasamp...@yahoo.com wrote: IG, IG - sneaky? Really?   I meant I was expecting a better class of invective :-) Surely you could have thrown in a

Re: [silk] Why don't women write or reply more on Silk?

2013-01-17 Thread Udhay Shankar N
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 9:57 PM, Divya Sampath divyasamp...@yahoo.com wrote: I meant I was expecting a better class of invective :-) Surely you could have thrown in a few gratuitous remarks apropos of nothing, as it were... Shirley this is more badinage than invective. Udhay -- ((Udhay

Re: [silk] Why don't women write or reply more on Silk?

2013-01-17 Thread Indrajit Gupta
@lists.hserus.net Sent: Thursday, 17 January 2013 9:57 PM Subject: Re: [silk] Why don't women write or reply more on Silk? Indrajit Gupta bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote: T hat was said in respect and envy. Suum cuique, if that stands the weight. Divya Sampath divyasamp...@yahoo.com wrote: IG, IG

Re: [silk] Why don't women write or reply more on Silk?

2013-01-10 Thread Indrajit Gupta
: Divya Sampath divyasamp...@yahoo.com To: silklist@lists.hserus.net silklist@lists.hserus.net Sent: Wednesday, 9 January 2013 9:59 PM Subject: Re: [silk] Why don't women write or reply more on Silk? From: Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote: Even got made into a 2006 movie starring

Re: [silk] Why don't women write or reply more on Silk?

2013-01-10 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 11:05 PM, Indrajit Gupta bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote: A film about Alatriste? Sensational! but what about more Indian bookstores storing Alatriste first? That's asking too much. But then the much vaunted Flipkart inventory will also fail to show any. -- sankarshan

Re: [silk] Why don't women write or reply more on Silk?

2013-01-10 Thread Indrajit Gupta
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net To: silklist@lists.hserus.net silklist@lists.hserus.net Sent: Wednesday, 9 January 2013 9:25 PM Subject: Re: [silk] Why don't women write or reply more on Silk? As it happens, I picked up one of those being sold well below market price

Re: [silk] Why don't women write or reply more on Silk?

2013-01-10 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On 10-Jan-2013, at 23:07, Indrajit Gupta bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote: Ah! With this, the mystery thins. Our resident linguist has been reading Perez-Reverte in Spanish: just the sneaky sort of thing she would do. Unfortunately, I have been reading the English translations, and there are

Re: [silk] Why don't women write or reply more on Silk?

2013-01-10 Thread Divya Sampath
Indrajit Gupta bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote: Ah! With this, the mystery thins. Our resident linguist has been reading Perez-Reverte in Spanish: just the sneaky sort of thing she would do. Unfortunately, I have been reading the English translations, and there are several remaining untranslated.

Re: [silk] Why don't women write or reply more on Silk?

2013-01-09 Thread Divya Sampath
Caitlin Marinelli caitlin.marine...@gmail.com wrote: Bueno Radhika, - que tipo de libro te gusta leer? Ficcion? Supongo que ya has leido Cien Años de Soledad? Una novela que me encanta se llama La Sombra Del Viento - de Carlos Ruiz Zafon. Una mezcla de historia, comedia, tragedia -

Re: [silk] Why don't women write or reply more on Silk?

2013-01-09 Thread Radhika, Y.
hi Divya! thanks for the suggestions - have added them to my Spanish reading list. I was amused by your description of email becoming triage (aptly put btw!) - there is a lot of bleeding communication going on;-)) this is strictly in the non-reading, non-computer realm but I picked up a

Re: [silk] Why don't women write or reply more on Silk?

2013-01-09 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
As it happens, I picked up one of those being sold well below market price at a landmark sale. In english of course .. he's done for the thirty years war what Patrick O'Brian did for the napoleonic wars. Literate, superbly detailed. And even better because the only fiction I'd ever read set

Re: [silk] Why don't women write or reply more on Silk?

2013-01-09 Thread Divya Sampath
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote: Even got made into a 2006 movie starring Viggo Mortensen, which actually had him speaking in spanish that was closer to 17th century spanish - he apparently grew up in Argentina, where of course the spanish followed an evolutionary path

Re: [silk] Why don't women write or reply more on Silk?

2013-01-09 Thread Divya Sampath
From: Radhika, Y. radhik...@gmail.com this is strictly in the non-reading, non-computer realm but I picked up a delightful book called how to draw Trucks and Trains. Super fun if you like to doodle and draw - and great tension reliever! What a good idea - I should really get around to

Re: [silk] Why don't women write or reply more on Silk?

2013-01-09 Thread Sumant Srivathsan
There's a movie about Alatriste?! How did I miss this! Thanks, Suresh! It even has a clever title: Alatriste :) Speaking of movies, and continuing the grand silk-list tradition of thread drift, I want to add a movie recommendation for Rurouni Kenshin, which is a live action adaptation of a

Re: [silk] Why don't women write or reply more on Silk?

2013-01-08 Thread Caitlin Marinelli
For me, I guess, it's because I can't always meaningfully contribute. Also the two or three times I have posted something - I've gotten no response. I sent an article about strong women this morning for example - and it didn't get a response. Someones post yesterday about wine in Chennai got much

Re: [silk] Why don't women write or reply more on Silk?

2013-01-08 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On 08-Jan-2013, at 16:21, Caitlin Marinelli caitlin.marine...@gmail.com wrote: For me, I guess, it's because I can't always meaningfully contribute. Also the two or three times I have posted something - I've gotten no response. I sent an article about strong women this morning for example -

Re: [silk] Why don't women write or reply more on Silk?

2013-01-08 Thread Venkat Mangudi - Silk
Now this is why top posting is painful. Go figure. :-) On Jan 8, 2013 4:36 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote: On 08-Jan-2013, at 16:21, Caitlin Marinelli caitlin.marine...@gmail.com wrote: For me, I guess, it's because I can't always meaningfully contribute. Also the two

Re: [silk] Why don't women write or reply more on Silk?

2013-01-08 Thread Surabhi Tomar
How many women to men in Silk? Percentage? And how come most of them don't write or reply? Could it be that we tend to notice lesser activity when we think that there is lesser activity? Similar to how we tend to notice all the bad female drivers when we think that women don’t drive well

Re: [silk] Why don't women write or reply more on Silk?

2013-01-08 Thread Bonobashi
On Jan 8, 2013, at 4:21 PM, Caitlin Marinelli caitlin.marine...@gmail.com wrote: For me, I guess, it's because I can't always meaningfully contribute. Also the two or three times I have posted something - I've gotten no response. I sent an article about strong women this morning for example

Re: [silk] Why don't women write or reply more on Silk?

2013-01-08 Thread Radhika, Y.
the good news Caitlin is that you got me to look at and read the link. I have to sometimes restrain myself from responding too much so in my old age have taken to silence;-) btw, couldn't help noticing that you speak SpanishI am at a high intermediate level and am looking for reading

Re: [silk] Why don't women write or reply more on Silk?

2013-01-08 Thread thewall
To: silklistsilklist@lists.hserus.net Reply-To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: Re: [silk] Why don't women write or reply more on Silk? For a moment, I thought you were saying you loved a llama called The Shadow of the Wind, but chalk that down to me waiting to hit the translate button that Gmail

Re: [silk] Why don't women write or reply more on Silk?

2013-01-08 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Comes down to the conquistador who asked an Indian what his llamas llama was.. --srs (htc one x) - Reply message - From: Sumant Srivathsan suma...@gmail.com To: silklist silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: [silk] Why don't women write or reply more on Silk? Date: Wed, Jan 9, 2013 11:02

Re: [silk] Why don't women write or reply more on Silk?

2013-01-08 Thread Vinit Bhansali
Everyone, 2013/1/9 Caitlin Marinelli caitlin.marine...@gmail.com: Bueno Radhika, - que tipo [] On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 2:24 AM, Radhika, Y. radhik...@gmail.com wrote: the good news Caitlin is that [] Radhika I think the current direction of the thread fully answers the

Re: [silk] Why don't women write or reply more on Silk?

2013-01-08 Thread Caitlin Marinelli
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.netwrote: Comes down to the conquistador who asked an Indian what his llamas llama was.. --srs (htc one x) El Juego del Angel was the prequel. I enjoyed the read for its historical learnings and Zafon's amazing abilities

Re: [silk] Why don't women write or reply more on Silk?

2013-01-08 Thread Radhika, Y.
hola Caitlin! Y gracias para tu sugerencia - todavia no lo leei y espero que la biblioteca lo tenga. El ano pasado leei Alberto Fuguet desde Chile - escribio una novela grafica Road Story basado por la poesia de Jack Kerouac. Era muy profundo y impresionante. Ahora estoy leyendo Cela (de la epoca

[silk] Why don't women write or reply more on Silk?

2013-01-07 Thread Shoba Narayan
How many women to men in Silk? Percentage? And how come most of them don't write or reply?

Re: [silk] Why don't women write or reply more on Silk?

2013-01-07 Thread Radhika, Y.
I thought I had better answer this - else it would be too ironic! I see you and Deepa most often on Silk whereas the other women do seem absent. Sometimes I don't reply because I am too afraid of top posting by mistake (have been guilty a number of times!) Radhika

Re: [silk] Why don't women write or reply more on Silk?

2013-01-07 Thread Udhay Shankar N
On 08-Jan-13 11:23 AM, Shoba Narayan wrote: How many women to men in Silk? Percentage? I thought this is best answered with actual data. I went and looked at the subscriber list. There are currently 264 addresses on the subscriber list. 63 are known by me to be women. There may be a little

Re: [silk] Why don't women write or reply more on Silk?

2013-01-07 Thread thewall
:05 To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Reply-To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: Re: [silk] Why don't women write or reply more on Silk? I thought I had better answer this - else it would be too ironic! I see you and Deepa most often on Silk whereas the other women do seem absent. Sometimes I don't

Re: [silk] Why don't women write or reply more on Silk?

2013-01-07 Thread Bonobashi
=gmail@lists.hserus.net Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 21:57:05 -0800 To: silklist@lists.hserus.net ReplyTo: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: Re: [silk] Why don't women write or reply more on Silk? I thought I had better answer this - else it would be too ironic! I see you and Deepa most often

Re: [silk] Why don't women write or reply more on Silk?

2013-01-07 Thread Deepa Mohan
I am not going to reply to this thread, either on the women issue or the top-posting issue. :)

Re: [silk] Why don't women write or reply more on Silk?

2013-01-07 Thread rashmi v
OK. I'll take the bait. I am a woman , once described by Udhay's as a ' determined lurker' . The reason I lurk are 1. I've been on the list only for a few months. 2. Unless I have substance to add I don't weigh in . Rashmi On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com

Re: [silk] Why don't women write or reply more on Silk?

2013-01-07 Thread Priyanka Sachar
I agree with the reactions to top posting .. kinda used to it everywhere but here I am not supposed to do it :p and I end up just lurking