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- From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
- Subject: Re: Democracy
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 00:23:30 GMT
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- >=>"email your [StM's] address to me....i am going to chambanacon this
- >=>weekend...i will get a copy and send it to you...."
- >=>
- >=>kitten is ever helpful when it comes to dispersing information.
- >= ^^^^^^^^^^
- >=Frood wonders, "Is that like dispersing a crowd? ... 'O.K. now. The
- >=show's over, there's nothing for you information here. Go home.'"
- >=
- >=*chuckle*
- >=
- >="Or beaming it out into space, widest dispersion?" :-)
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- >StM, who's of the opinion that before one criticizes another's use of the
- >English language, one ought to be damned sure one understands the language
- >better than the person being critized does, points out, "Actually it IS.
- >Kitten almost certainly did NOT mean `dispensing' information. Her use of the
- >term "dispersing" was perfectly valid and appropriate. Heinlein was dispensing
- >information when he wrote the book. I suppose you might've thought `disbursing'
- >would've been a more appropriate term, but I think not. Dispersing it means
- >spreading it around. When you disperse a crowd, you're causing it do spread
- >out. Similarly with beaming something into space. The odd thing about
- >information, though (and one that makes the economics of information rather
- >intractable, by he way) is that no matter how much you try to disperse it, the
- >amount in your own vicinity doesn't decrease."
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- kitten, after hugging frood...bounces over to speaker and bites him
- gently on the nose..."i think he was teasing, sweetie...
-
- but thank you for defending my honor...it's hell to be literate and
- language impaired...."
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- conan the librarian a.k.a. kitten /\ /\ barbara ann
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