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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

785.0. "Lederer punster talk, Nashua, March 26" by CSSE32::TDOLAN (Reduce - Reuse - Recycle) Wed Mar 21 1990 05:00

Cross posted from 
	"154.12 of WASHDC::ENVIRONMENTAL_ISSUES by Mike STAR::RUBINO"

                           -< Earth Day/90 Benefit >-

		Lederer Talk to Benefit Earth Day/90

    Richard Lederer, the verbose humorist who takes an irreverent look
at our loopy English language, is lending his worldly knowledge to
promote Earth Day/90.

    Lederer will speak on Monday, March 26 at 7:30PM at the Clarion
Somerset Hotel in Nashua. Tickets are $6, and can be purchased in
advance from myself, the City Clerks Office in Nashua City Hall.
All proceeds from Dr. Lederers talk will benefit Earth Day NH and
Nashua Earth Day/90. 

    Lederer is the author of several books, including CRAZY ENGLISH:
The Ultimate Joy Ride Through Our Language, and writes "Looking at
Language", a syndicated column. His talk pokes fun at the colorful
and often frustrating inconsistencies of English.
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Contact Mike STAR::Rubino or Tim Dolan at CSSE32::tdolan (1-2832) for 
tickets.

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
785.1		TKOV51::DIAMOND	This note is illegal tender.	`Wed Jul 04 1990 09:39`	12
	> the City Clerks Office ------ > All proceeds from Dr. Lederers talk -------- > Tickets are $6, and can be purchased in advance from myself, > the City Clerks Office in Nashua City Hall. So the author ("myself") is more fully described as equivalent to "the City Clerk[']s Office in Nashua City Hall." That's fortunate. I'd hate to think that a human was responsible for this kind of sloppiness in this kind of conference.
785.2		LJSRV2::KALIKOW	Hi-ho! Yow! I'm surfing Arpanet!	`Wed Jul 26 1995 19:18`	8
	I happened to hear Christopher Lydon spend a delightful hour on WGBH-Boston interviewing Richard Lederer. The highlight of the show for me was a woman who called in with a snippet from one of her students' essays on "The Diary of Anne Frank" -- something to the effect that "The Frank family lived in a hidden apartment for many months, and almost made it to the end of the war, but then they were betrayed and the Gazpacho came and took them away."
785.3		GIDDAY::BURT	DPD (tm)	`Wed Jul 26 1995 19:24`	6
	re <<< Note 785.2 "Student soups up sad story"
785.4	Christopher Lydon... delightful hour?	RICKS::PHIPPS	DTN 225.4959	`Thu Jul 27 1995 06:24`	1
	I don't think so.
785.5		JRDV04::DIAMOND	segmentation fault (california dumped)	`Thu Jul 27 1995 18:45`	2
	I'll bet there exists spelling miscorrection software that would help produce .2's quote even in the hands of a more talented student.