For the 2,350,781,997th time...
daniel gerard mcgrath
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daniel g. mcgrath
an avid subscriber to _word ways: the journal of recreational linguistics_
(<URL:http://www.wordways.com/>) and 'alt.usage.english' newsgroup
i have AUTISM -- for more information, please see
<URL:http://www.alt-usage-english.org/McGrath.html>.
Peter T. Daniels
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> Can you please tell me again what the word "govende" means? I forget.
In what language? It doesn't seem to be English.
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Peter T. Daniels gram...@att.net
Harlan Messinger
>Can you please tell me again what the word "govende" means? I forget.
>
As far as I can tell from Google, it's a word you made up in 1996 or
earlier and for which you have been running around Usenet ever since
teasing people by asking them the meaning. In June 1997, you wrote,
"OK, I'll give you the correct pronunciation of "govende". It's
pronounced 'goo-VAIN' (yes, the 'd' is silent). It's my made-up word
that I really like -- my favorite word."
Is this your version of "Kilroy was here"? Or "Cool Disco Dan" of
Washington, DC, graffiti notoriety?
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>daniel g. mcgrath
>an avid subscriber to _word ways: the journal of recreational linguistics_
>(<URL:http://www.wordways.com/>) and 'alt.usage.english' newsgroup
>
>i have AUTISM -- for more information, please see
><URL:http://www.alt-usage-english.org/McGrath.html>.
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Harlan Messinger
There is no xyz in my actual e-mail address.
R J Valentine
In alt.usage.english Harlan Messinger <xyzmes...@home.com> wrote:
} dmcg...@yahoo.com (daniel gerard mcgrath) wrote:
}
}>Can you please tell me again what the word "govende" means? I forget.
}>
}
} As far as I can tell from Google, it's a word you made up in 1996 or
} earlier and for which you have been running around Usenet ever since
} teasing people by asking them the meaning. In June 1997, you wrote,
} "OK, I'll give you the correct pronunciation of "govende". It's
} pronounced 'goo-VAIN' (yes, the 'd' is silent). It's my made-up word
} that I really like -- my favorite word."
}
} Is this your version of "Kilroy was here"? Or "Cool Disco Dan" of
} Washington, DC, graffiti notoriety?
Generally 'Cool "Disco" Dan'. The tag sans quotes lacks oomph.
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R. J. Valentine <mailto:r...@smart.net>
Paul Townsend
news:3c0082e9...@news.ggn.net...
> Subject: For the 2,350,781,997th time...
> Can you please tell me again what the word "govende" means? I forget.
It means "stop exaggerating the numbers" ; )
Richard Carr
:Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 05:39:52 GMT
:From: daniel gerard mcgrath <dmcg...@yahoo.com>
:Newsgroups: alt.usage.english, rec.puzzles, sci.lang
:Subject: For the 2,350,781,997th time...
:
:Can you please tell me again what the word "govende" means? I forget.
:
Have you really asked that many times? That's on average one a second for
the last 74 years 180 days and 3 hours plus or minus a few seconds (taking
into account there having been at least 3 leap seconds in this period as
well as 18 leap days).
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daniel gerard mcgrath
All right, maybe it was only the 335,003rd time.
Keith G
<gram...@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> daniel gerard mcgrath wrote:
> >
> > Can you please tell me again what the word "govende" means? I forget.
>
> In what language? It doesn't seem to be English.
For a made-up word (pace Harlen's posting), it looks suspiciously like
the Slavic root for 'beef' or 'cattle' (cf. Russian <govjadina>). And
isn't there a Sanskrit word <govinda> or something? Something from
Hinduism, IIRC.
Regards,
Keith
R H Draney
mcgrath) wrote:
>On Sun, 25 Nov 2001 20:34:44 -0000, "Paul Townsend"
><pvsto...@prai-jei.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>"daniel gerard mcgrath" <dmcg...@yahoo.com> saledem nivosha
>>news:3c0082e9...@news.ggn.net...
>>> Subject: For the 2,350,781,997th time...
>>> Can you please tell me again what the word "govende" means? I forget.
>>
>>It means "stop exaggerating the numbers" ; )
>>
>All right, maybe it was only the 335,003rd time.
Taking into account crossposts, I'm almost willing to believe that as
literal....r
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"The numbers obtained this way are limits,
reality can be only worse." - meron
zadne
> Can you please tell me again what the word "govende" means? I forget.
>
André Keshav
Pine.LNX.4.40.011125...@cpw.math.columbia.edu...
> On Sun, 25 Nov 2001, daniel gerard mcgrath wrote:
>
> :Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 05:39:52 GMT
> :From: daniel gerard mcgrath <dmcg...@yahoo.com>
> :Newsgroups: alt.usage.english, rec.puzzles, sci.lang
> :Subject: For the 2,350,781,997th time...
> :
> :Can you please tell me again what the word "govende" means? I forget.
> :
>
> Have you really asked that many times? That's on average one a second for
> the last 74 years 180 days and 3 hours plus or minus a few seconds (taking
> into account there having been at least 3 leap seconds in this period as
> well as 18 leap days).
Persistance doesn't always pay ;-)
Bill Howard
mcgrath) wrote:
>On Sun, 25 Nov 2001 20:34:44 -0000, "Paul Townsend"
><pvsto...@prai-jei.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>"daniel gerard mcgrath" <dmcg...@yahoo.com> saledem nivosha
>>news:3c0082e9...@news.ggn.net...
>>> Subject: For the 2,350,781,997th time...
>>> Can you please tell me again what the word "govende" means? I forget.
>>
>>It means "stop exaggerating the numbers" ; )
>>
>All right, maybe it was only the 335,003rd time.
>
Here we see accuracy sacrificed for precision.
There's a useful word in English for such very large numbers of
iterations: umpteenth.
Govende of course is still analagous to waltz.
Or should that be analagous _with_ ?