xmca@weber.ucsd.edu writes:
Bill scrobe:
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>... and then there is Phillip in his classroom, with his students.
and i'm a little wired just now - having spent all of last night baking
ten dozen cookies and whipping up multiple colored frostings - so that the
kids could decorate cookies for their halloween party - instead of
getting store-bought cookies - usually we bake our cookies in the school
cafeteria, but that couldn't happen this year. not to mention cupcakes!
phillip
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The English noun "identity" comes, ultimately, from the
Latin adverb "identidem", which means "repeatedly."
The Latin has exactly the same rhythm as the English,
buh-BUM-buh-BUM - a simple iamb, repeated; and
"identidem" is, in fact, nothing more than a
reduplication of the word "idem", "the same":
"idem(et)idem". "Same(and) same". The same,
repeated. It is a word that does exactly what
it means.
from "The Elusive Embrace" by Daniel
Mendelsohn.
phillip white
third grade teacher
doctoral student http://ceo.cudenver.edu/~hacms_lab/index.htm
scrambling a dissertation
denver, colorado
phillip_white@ceo.cudenver.edu
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