Re: Computer Keyboards in Tennessee

[barbara wolf <lupa@biddeford.com>]

At 07:14 PM 3/9/96 -0500, Bethany wrote (to Layt, in self-defense):
><snip>
>
>Wellllllll, Laaaaayton, you have laaaaaaaiiaid one on me, haven't you? Not
>half bad. (Are you practising to be the list linguist?) I think there are
>two credible answers to your qustion:

Bethany, you didn't tell him about who, Tennessee, that charming little
village you have often seen in your peregrinations aboard Maria, the village
those children came from.  That was really very, very clever of you.
Everybody from Tennessee understood your story and is giggling over his
ignorant nit-pick, while you add to the fun by giving him misleading
"answers".  (Still, we all have to be generous to folks from the middle of
the Pacific Ocean.  Their horizons are so limited....)
Barbara Wolf

        "But we've got to be careful not to reduce people by cramming
        them in the limits of our understanding, haven't we?"

                                                Reginald Hill