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- From: palepink@lily.arts.com (Suzii Abe)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: mnemonics in general
- Message-ID: <VPNkuB1w165w@lily.arts.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 20:30:42 PST
- References: <1992Nov19.111927.1@wombat.newcastle.edu.au>
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- eepjm@wombat.newcastle.edu.au (Peter Moylan) writes:
- > Most of the other mnemonics I've seen - usually in
- > the form of complete sentences - have been quite useless to me
- > because the only way I could reconstruct them was by using the
- > original information as a mnemonic for the mnemonic. They are
- > interesting curios, but I wonder whether anyone has found them to
- > have mnemonic value.
-
- I find that "Kings play cards; only fairies get sick" has been
- genuinely useful, although I find I have to remember, since 1982,
- to also remember (no, really, I'm not scrambling this sentence--I
- *intend* to write this way!) not to share it with people.
-
- --Suzii.
- palepink@lily.arts.com
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