I don't respond to moonlit's postings because they're so comprehensive, but I really enjoy reading them.
And what, she said plaintively, is the meaning of 'diachronic'?
Yes. Men like sports. Men watch the action movie, they eat of the beef, and enjoy to look at the bosoms. A thousand years of avenging our wrongs and that's all you've learned?
Xander ,'End of Days'
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Betsy HP - Apr 01, 2003 10:11:07 am PST #2901 of 9843
If I only had a brain...
amyth - Apr 01, 2003 10:11:55 am PST #2902 of 9843
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
Continuing to mess with Jim's head: To drive from Montauk, New York to Niagara, New York in itself takes ten hours. And that's if you don't hit traffic or stop.
brenda m - Apr 01, 2003 10:12:51 am PST #2903 of 9843
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I can never ever get my head around the size of the USA. As far as I'm concerned the 2 coasts are about 10 hours drive apart. Any further than that is, to my mind, Abroad.
Yeah, I had some Dutch guys staying with me once. They had just under a week free before they had to go home, so they planned to rent a Suburban and drive to California and back. Heh.
They still did rent the Suburban, though, and spent every possible minute in it.
Hil R. - Apr 01, 2003 10:12:59 am PST #2904 of 9843
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Driving from home to my university (which I've never actually done, but I know people who have) is something like 25 hours driving time, not counting rest stops. And that's only like halfway across the country.
sarameg - Apr 01, 2003 10:15:40 am PST #2905 of 9843
If I drive 19 hours from NC, I get to Houston. That's 19 hours at a likely average of 60 mph (100kmh) roughly.
I used to do it on long breaks in school. Except Houston was just the first stop. Then it was another 10ish hours to where my parents live in NM.
Typo Boy - Apr 01, 2003 10:17:58 am PST #2906 of 9843
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
BTW, when the hell did "cowboy" become a synonym for homicidal tactless maniac? Sheesh.
Maybe when the U.S. media bought into the lie that Bush was a cowboy instead of a cheerleader?
Susan W. - Apr 01, 2003 10:18:04 am PST #2907 of 9843
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Philadelphia to Daytona Beach is the longest nonstop road trip I've done. 20 hours, to go straight down I-95 over I guess about 2/3 to 3/4 of the East Coast.
We have a running joke with our friends in Boston where they chastise us for being just down the road, but never coming to see them. (I-90 begins in Boston and ends in Seattle.) Sometimes I'll drive by the spot where I-90 connects to I-5 and wish I could just get on the road and drive to Boston for the hell of it. I think we decided it'd take four days if you didn't stop much.
Nutty - Apr 01, 2003 10:19:01 am PST #2908 of 9843
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
All of the above is why the whole world should fit between Boston and New York. If you can't get to it in 4 hours and/or on an interconnected set of train and public transity systems, why bother??
meaning of 'diachronic'
things what change over time. If you study how classrooms have taught Beowulf in the last 150 years, you're doing a diachronic study.
moonlit - Apr 01, 2003 10:21:32 am PST #2909 of 9843
"When the world's run by fools it's the duty of intelligence to disobey." Martin Firrell
moonlit, are you bursting into song, then?No Nutty, I'm pondering people's conceptions of democracy, relative to their age (as in specifically those born 50s & 60s).
Question - 'cos it's 3.15am and I can't be bothered going to my books and you'll all answer so much faster.
What year did African Americans get the vote and what year did women?
sarameg, no I didn't, I assume the article is in the NYT?
Betsy, though I'm sure someone will have answered before me,
diachronic: Of or concerned with phenomena, such as linguistic features, as they change through time.and less formally too.
amych - Apr 01, 2003 10:22:03 am PST #2910 of 9843
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
And what, she said plaintively, is the meaning of 'diachronic'?
Happening, or perceived to happen, over a period of time; "synchronic" is simultaneous. In the litcritty world where I learned the terms, narrative is diachronic -- you can't help but start, and go on, and end; visual art is synchronic -- you can see it all at once.
(and, weirdly, I spent a long time searching my mind for those two words the other day and couldn't find them)