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- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 12:49:32 CST
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- From: Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
- Subject: Re: What A Quiet Bunch
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- > and that stack of work appears to have *grown*, which is also the sound
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- Hide it. That's what I've done with all my still-undone work. It's buried
- under my desk and won't come out till tomorrow at the earliest.
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- "Un" is one of my favorite morphemes. Think about my undone work in comparison
- with something that has come undone. Work like grading or writing can't come
- undone, yet other work can come undone. The undone sewing can become done
- and later come undone, can't it? I guess I still have Donne on my mind.
- You can have an unread book, but you can't unread a book. If somebody
- mentions something that is unraveled, you're not likely to think that it
- has not yet been raveled. But if somebody mentions undone sewing, you're
- more likely to think that it has not yet been done than that it has come
- undone. Or are you? Never mind. Today isn't a morphological sort of day.
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- Bernard just ate cornbread and black-eyed peas. I hope all of you have done
- likewise.
- --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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