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Conference thebay::joyoflex

Title:	The Joy of Lex
Notice:	A Notes File even your grammar could love
Moderator:	THEBAY::SYSTEM

Created:	Fri Feb 28 1986
Last Modified:	Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1192
Total number of notes:	42769

551.0. ".. Signage ? ..." by CURIUS::CIUFFINI (If my Personal Name were a song, it ) Thu Aug 11 1988 23:59

   
    
    
    We received a memo today and I have stripped the headers and 
    footers from the text. I paused briefly at "signage", looked it
    up in Webster's or Miriam's Third and another dictionary but
    could not find the word. Is "signage" a word? ( er,.. beyond a 
    combination of letters that make it look like a word :-))    

    Thanks!
    jc

    [ Memo extract start ]

  New names have been selected for the conference rooms at the VRO site. 
  The names are in keeping with a local theme of people/places. 
  Following is a list of the old name/new name/capacity for the rooms.
  This change will go into effect an Monday Aug 22 in buildings VRO3 and 
  VRO5 at which time new signage will be in place for these rooms. The 
  signage for the VRO6 rooms will be installed by the end of this week
  (Aug 12).

    [ Memo extract end ]

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
551.1	Put together with tape	SEAPEN::PHIPPS	Mike @DTN 225-4959	`Fri Aug 12 1988 00:46`	7
	Signage: A collection or mass of signs. "-age suff. 1. Collection; mass: sewerage"... The American Heritage (Office Edition) Dictionary What an interesting example they use 8^{
551.2	:-)	LISP::DERAMO	Daniel V. {AITG,LISP,ZFC}:: D'Eramo	`Fri Aug 12 1988 01:38`	1
	Perhaps it meant to say "sinus"!
551.3		CURIUS::CIUFFINI	If my Personal Name were a song, it	`Fri Aug 12 1988 16:16`	13
	Thanks, Is it safe to say that conferences are notages? ( This heat and power problem reminded me of 'outage'. Is this a collection of outs? :-)) Thankage to you. jc p.s. I guess that it must be an 'office word', as I cannot find it in the non-office editions of dictionaries... :-)
551.4	what's the singular of "adage"?	NYSSA::BIELSKI	Stan B.	`Fri Aug 12 1988 22:55`	2
	Sounds ok to me, except I now wonder how many lives I'll have to lead once I reach my dotage...
551.5	how about ...?	MARKER::KALLIS	Anger's no replacement for reason	`Fri Aug 12 1988 22:59`	8
	Re .4 (Stan B.): > -< what's the singular of "adage"? >- Well, "Lay down with apes, get up with apes," sounds pretty singular to me. ;-) Steve Kallis, Jr.
551.6	Here's one	SWSNOD::SALLOWAY	Jeux Sans Fronti�res	`Wed Aug 17 1988 18:13`	6
	From a memo at a homeless shelter: "Due to the extreme weather, we've decide to add extra beds. The cottage will be installed tomorrow." -Brian
551.7	Enlightenment at last ...	SSDEVO::HUGHES	NOTE, learn, and inwardly digest	`Wed Aug 17 1988 18:42`	5
	So now we know what that hitherto obscure Biblical phrase really meant: "... a mess of pottage ..." :-)
551.8	please pass the coleslaw	HSSWS1::DUANE	Send lawyers, guns, & money	`Fri Sep 02 1988 08:07`	10
	Does this mean that a taxi garage should be referred to as coleslaw? collection of taxis -> cabbage -> coleslaw I guess my diet doesn't include enough vegetables or roughage. ;-} d
551.9	Signage in OHJ	VIDEO::DCL	David Larrick	`Wed Sep 28 1988 03:14`	8
	A recent issue of The Old-House Journal used the word "signage" to refer to the arrangement of signs on a building or street. The next issue contained several letters accusing OHJ of using a long word when a short one ("signs") would have done the same job, and the editor plead guilty. I think she caved in too soon. Just as "fenestration" means something different from "windows" - the former term encompasses the arrangement of windows, not just their number - "signage" is different from "signs".
551.10		TKOV51::DIAMOND	This note is illegal tender.	`Thu Apr 12 1990 07:48`	3
	Signage: the attainment of 18 years [your mileage may vary], at which one becomes legally responsible for one's contracts and for paying one's syntax.