On Thursday, October 8, 2020 at 7:32:10 PM UTC-5, GM wrote:
> dsi1 wrote:
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> > On Thursday, October 8, 2020 at 2:09:45 PM UTC-10, GM wrote:
> > > wrote:
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> > > > On Thursday, October 8, 2020 at 6:04:01 PM UTC-5, GM wrote:
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> > > > > Jeez, I remember Stan Horwitz from rec.travel.air 20+ years ago, lol...
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> > > > > Best
> > > > > Greg
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> > > > Is he still alive or is Transition Zone replying to a corpse?
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> > >
> > > Stan is still extant, apparently. he is on the faculty roster he
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> > > https://its.temple.edu/computer-serv...artment?page=4
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> > > And he's on LinkedIn:
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> > > Stan Horwitz
> > > Data Protection Specialist and Systems Manager at Temple University
> > >
> > > So good for Stan! He was always a bit "pedantic", but in a good way....
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> > > ;-)
> > >
> > > Another rec.travel.air peep, and also worked at Temple and knew Stan, was Ellen Prince, a linguist. She was very smart, funny and a character. She was *very* pro - smoking and would try to obtain all of her cigs from Australia, where there are/were gruesome anti - smoking labels on tobacco (like pix of poor souls with diseased jawbones, etc.)...she had a "morbid" sense of humor, ya might say...
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> > > She HATED that she could not smoke in - flight, and by 2000 or so when she flew internationally she flew Aeroflot Russian Airlines 'cuz they still allowed smoking. If she went to Paris or anywhere else in Europe/Asia she'd fly via Aeroflot from JFK, transit in Moscow, and then another Aeroflot flight to Paris or London or wherever. IIRC she once attended a seminar in Cuba, and instead of flying on one of the US charters or via Canada to Havana, she FLEW FROM JFK TO MOSCOW on Aeroflot, transited in Moscow for another Aeroflot flight to HAVANA...and thence BACK TO THE US via Moscow...I think she did Tokyo that way, too...
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> > > From watching John Waters movies, I was always fascinated by the "Baltimore accent" that many of his actors had. We exchanged some emails about this, she was very kind and helpful - and also funny as hell; she adored Woody Allen, knew a lot about car repair, and raised roses. A true "Renaissance Woman"...!!! And despite me being on WebTV at the time, she was still very nice to me ;-)
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> > > And her use of Yiddish cracked me up...
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> > > Ob food, Ellen, from Brooklyn, said that "Jewish women who have any money DO NOT cook!" She and her banker hubby lived in Rittenhouse Square in a nice townhouse, the range had been installed years earlier and it was still in in its mint "factory wrapping", it had not once been used. EVERY meal was eaten out...in the fridge they kept champagne, lol...
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> > > Those were the types of folks that used to be on Usenet...
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> > > Ellen, alas, has vamoosed from this mortal coil, expiring from - what else!? - lung cancer:
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> > > https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2740
> > >
> > > "R.I.P. Ellen Prince
> > > October 27, 2010 @ 6:09 pm · Filed by Mark Liberman under Obituaries
> > >
> > > A note from the Penn Linguistics Department, written by Gillian Sankoff and Tony Kroch:
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> > > It is with great sadness that we announce the death of our colleague Ellen F. Prince. Ellen died peacefully at home in Philadelphia on Sunday, October 24, 2010 after a long battle with cancer.
> > >
> > > After earning her doctorate in linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania in 1974, Ellen joined the faculty of the Penn Linguistics Department in the same year. She taught here until her retirement in 2005 and served as chair of our department from 1993 to 1997. Ellen was also active in the affairs of the Linguistic Society of America, serving on the executive committee and in many other capacities. She was noted for her interdisciplinary perspective and held a secondary appointment in Penn's Computer and Information Sciences Department. Among her many honors were the Presidency of the Linguistic Society of America in 2008 and election as a fellow of the AAAS in 2009.
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> > > A pioneer in linguistic pragmatics, Ellen worked on her own and with many colleagues and students on various aspects of the subject. Several of her incisive and tightly argued papers became classics in the field. She is perhaps best known for her typology of information statuses in discourse, based on the study of naturally-occurring data; but she also devoted major efforts to the study of the pragmatic functions of syntactic constructions, including the various species of cleft and left-periphery constructions, including topicalization and left-dislocation. She had a particular interest in Yiddish and used her knowledge of that language to do ground-breaking work on the cross-linguistic comparison of the pragmatic functions of syntactic constructions. In later years, she continued her work on the referential status of noun phrases in the framework of centering theory, as developed by colleagues Aravind Joshi, Scott Weinstein and Barbara Grosz.
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> > > Ellen was an inspirational and caring teacher, imparting high intellectual standards while at the same time providing solid support and mentoring to her many students. We missed her acutely when she retired from our department; she will be even more sorely missed now and for years to come.
> > >
> > > Friends, colleagues and students who would like to remember Ellen Prince by making a charitable donation are asked to donate to the American Lung Association..."
> > >
> > > </>
> > > --
> > > Best
> > > Greg
> > No doubt these people would be disappointed at how far this group has descended into trolling, bullying, and gossiping. Yoose guys don't seem to mind though.
> I wouldn't get all puffed up if I were you, Slant Eyes, you are amongst the ***very*** worst of posters here in those respects...
>
Greg, you are piece of ****ing shit for using a phrase like "Slant Eyes."
You deserve to have your dick cut off and shoved up your ass. You are
a true piece of shit, and anyone who defends you is a piece of shit.
> --
> Best
> Greg

--Bryan