Remind me to tell you about being held hostage by terrorists, being held at gunpoint by a US Marshal, and being held at gunpoint by a dozen secret service equivalents in a country where killing people is acceptable.
Also, about being chased up a palm tree by a feral pig. And walking through a nudist sunbathing area, nude, as a countersurveillance measure.
I didn't add the information about his lifelong depression that compelled him to make lists, but the C-Span link has an interview with his biographer that does.
OMG, you actually have worked with the Oughtred Society. Amazing!
I have always loved words and language. I have a 40 year old paperback thesaurus sitting on my library shelf right now. Just a keepsake as I use the internet for word searches now. I have read several books on our native tongue, English and found its origin to be in the Danube Valley, and the connections of Indo-European, Such a remarkable spreading of the language to the Middle East and back to Europe again. The influence of the Latin, is mainly near Hadrian's Wall in Britain. And then reinforced by William the Conqueror who conquered the Anglo-Saxons at the Battle of Hastings (October 14, 1066)
"Dirty words" originated by a decree to use only Latin for describing bodily functions in a power play by the Normans as a conquering people.
I am just outlining quickly here in a flow of consciousness manner....
See:
Our Marvelous Native Tongue: The Life and Times of the English Language Hardcover – May 12, 1983
You mentioned Hadrian's wall...now I think I'll write about the tablets. Your comments help. T had an original Roget and liked it for the organization and classification--which, is a heart of librarianship and may have taken me to it.
Do you have a PhD in Esoterica? I think I might qualify for a Masters.
I actually read about libraries or censored books and get led there. So many esoteric library stories. But you lived the life.
Remind me to tell you about being held hostage by terrorists, being held at gunpoint by a US Marshal, and being held at gunpoint by a dozen secret service equivalents in a country where killing people is acceptable.
Also, about being chased up a palm tree by a feral pig. And walking through a nudist sunbathing area, nude, as a countersurveillance measure.
"Oughtred Society. Dedicated to the History and Preservation of Slide Rules. Slide Rule History."
Extremely handy page - I've got a couple of slide rules in part thanks to them.
elm
is it weird that I wound up with lots of dictionaries and no thesaurus?
I didn't add the information about his lifelong depression that compelled him to make lists, but the C-Span link has an interview with his biographer that does.
OMG, you actually have worked with the Oughtred Society. Amazing!
Lifelong depression sounds nasty.
I didn't work 'with them', I was just looking at all their cool stuff and dredging for infor when I went slide rule happy for awhile.
elm
sorry for any confusion
That you knew abt them is amazing. I learned to use SR in h.s. I was one of the first to get a TI calculator, tho.
I have always loved words and language. I have a 40 year old paperback thesaurus sitting on my library shelf right now. Just a keepsake as I use the internet for word searches now. I have read several books on our native tongue, English and found its origin to be in the Danube Valley, and the connections of Indo-European, Such a remarkable spreading of the language to the Middle East and back to Europe again. The influence of the Latin, is mainly near Hadrian's Wall in Britain. And then reinforced by William the Conqueror who conquered the Anglo-Saxons at the Battle of Hastings (October 14, 1066)
"Dirty words" originated by a decree to use only Latin for describing bodily functions in a power play by the Normans as a conquering people.
I am just outlining quickly here in a flow of consciousness manner....
See:
Our Marvelous Native Tongue: The Life and Times of the English Language Hardcover – May 12, 1983
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by Robert Claiborne
You mentioned Hadrian's wall...now I think I'll write about the tablets. Your comments help. T had an original Roget and liked it for the organization and classification--which, is a heart of librarianship and may have taken me to it.