[mplpost] Back to the dictionary/Johnny V's posts

[Del Vezeau]

Funny...I thought 'ratiocinate' had something to do with Don Quixote's
horse...

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From: Richard Flohil <rflohil@inforamp.net>
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Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 9:29 AM
Subject: [mplpost] Back to the dictionary/Johnny V's posts


> Writes Johnny V, back safe and sound from his adventures in war-torn
> Europe, not to mention  nasty experiences with moose on the highway:
>
> >"Richard The Elder" can ratiocinate with the best of them...
>
> Boy, that one sent me to the dictionary - after 50 years as a professional
> typist,"ratiocinate" was a new one on me.  I was relieved to discover it
> means "to reason methodically and logically."
>
> J.V. was quite right insofar as Canada has a shameful past (and some of
it,
> as in the Africville destruction, appalingly recent) of racial bigotry,
> But my feeling is that the blues was a black American creation (stitched
> together from many threads) that has spread across the entire world, so
> that it has served as a point which brings different cultures together,
and
> thus acts to heal divisions, and certainly not to widen them.
>
> At the risk of totally alienating some of you, may I add that the
> 20-year-history of rap music indicates a similar story insofar as it has
> crossed racial lines and become a universal, international form of music.
> Mind you, as one commentator (a basketball player, I think) wryly said
> about Eminem: "You know the world's gone to hell in a handbasket when the
> best rapper is a white guy, and the best golfer is black."
>
> Richard
>
>
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