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- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 08:57:43 CST
- Sender: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
- From: Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
- Subject: Mousely Matters and Written Slang
- Comments: To: words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu
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- I'm sitting here pondering mysteries like why when I tried to install
- mouse software (in order to click mouse to make scrollback work when using
- slip driver under DVX) it told me "not enough memory" (I have 8 meg RAM)
- and why Graham finds the concept of written slang odd. Any enlightenment
- on either of these mysteries will be appreciated.
-
- The mouse says Microsoft on it. Hmmmm. I just thought of something.
- The mouse disk says Imsi. Maybe I'm mixing mouse particles. The disk
- might go with a previous mouse. (The neighbor from whom I buy computer
- parts keeps including mice in my transactions even though I normally keep
- mice on a shelf, detached from computer.) Wonder if I have another mouse
- disk around here somewhere... But why would it say "not enough memory"
- anyway?
-
- And why do you find the concept of written slang odd, Graham? I often am
- exposed to slang in reading. I would guess that "copacetic" shows up more
- often now in writing than in speech -- although not all that often in either.
- --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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