4.1220 Rs: Unix Concording; De Italia; Stoned PC; &c. (4/60)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Tue, 9 Apr 91 23:09:34 EDT
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 1220. Tuesday, 9 Apr 1991.
(1) Date: Mon, 8 Apr 91 17:51:35 PDT (15 lines)
From: tut@Eng.Sun.COM (Bill "Bill" Tuthill)
Subject: Re: Unix concordance package
(2) Date: Tue, 9 Apr 91 12:34:24 CDT (17 lines)
From: sem sutter <book@midway.uchicago.edu>
Subject: 4.1210 De Italia
(3) Date: Mon, 8 Apr 91 15:33:00 PST (8 lines)
From: Michael_Kessler.Hum@mailgate
Subject: Stoned PC
(4) Date: Mon, 8 Apr 91 19:51 EDT (20 lines)
From: Jean Veronis <VERONIS@vassar.bitnet>
Subject: Re: 4.1213 Gender
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Date: Mon, 8 Apr 91 17:51:35 PDT
From: tut@Eng.Sun.COM (Bill "Bill" Tuthill)
Subject: Re: Unix concordance package
Hum is still available, free. It was written in C on version 7 Unix
at UC Berkeley, back in the early 80s. Last week I compiled it on a
Sun-4 running SunOS 4.1, and it still runs. If you send me e-mail,
I'll reply with a shell archive of the Hum package (169k). You'll
have to compile it yourself.
It's odd that the Oxford Concordance Program was written in Fortran
because that was the most common language. I don't even have Fortran
on my machine now!
Bill
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Date: Tue, 9 Apr 91 12:34:24 CDT
From: sem sutter <book@midway.uchicago.edu>
Subject: 4.1210 De Italia
Our De Italia set-up (near the general reference desk) sits
idle for 99+% of the time. When I see it in use, it's usually by someone
drawn to experiment with the gleaming screen. Research use is almost
nonexistent due to the superficial character of the material.
Has anyone else's experience been differeent?
Sem C. Sutter
Bibliographer for W. European Languages & Literatures
University of Chicago Library
Bitnet: uclbook@uchimvs1
Internet: book@midway.uchicago.edu
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Date: Mon, 8 Apr 91 15:33:00 PST
From: Michael_Kessler.Hum@mailgate
Subject: Stoned PC
The message "your PC is stoned" is generated by the Stoned virus. It
can be removed with F-Prot.
MKessler@HUM.SFSU.EDU
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Date: Mon, 8 Apr 91 19:51 EDT
From: Jean Veronis <VERONIS@vassar.bitnet>
Subject: Re: 4.1213 Gender
Unfortunately, I do not have the answer to Ian Mitchell Lambert's question:
"why do words have a gender in some languages?", but I want to bring a related
question: why do children learn gender so fast in those languages? I am always
puzzled in my own language (French) to see that children learn word gender
extremely early, and extremely easily. Children (even very young) almost never
goof on gender. They hear a word once, and that's it, they'll remember the
gender. They will have trouble with lots of other things (like conjuguation in
French: "je fera" instead od "je ferai", etc.), but not with gender. Yet,
gender is perfectly arbitrary ("moon" is feminine to us, whereas it is
masculine to Germans, if I am right). To the contrary, gender aquisition is one
of the trickiest difficulties for non native speakers: it is extremely slow and
painful, and many learners of French never quite have genders right, whereas
they can eventually master most of the grammar. Are there any theories about
that?
Jean Ve'ronis, Vassar College and CNRS