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Thanks, Sue. Woman power!!</p>
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Pardon me, but you have some green detritus between your front two teeth.</p>
<p>Which is why I thought she posted this in the same post-
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<p>If I may, it means that it is possible to engage in discriminating on the planes of intelligence, prestige, relative desirability of schools (in the abstract) WITHOUT any necessary inferences regarding the quality or worth of individual human beings…because in my mind at least that’s what all of my/our hypersensitivity and constant defending is all about…that fundamentally there’s some implication of less than if you fall short of (or don’t want) “tippy top.” </p>
<p>e.g. My friend values me just as much or more than one of his Harvard classmates, and in many instances more so. Which doesn’t mean he thereby presumes I should have gone to Harvard.</p>
<p>:-) @ bovertine.
Nah, I just meant that only a good friend will tell you when your fly is unzipped, you have spinach in your teeth, or you’re pronouncing the word detritus incorrectly!</p>
<p>bovertine,
Doesnt it have to have been between the teeth for a long time and decomposed (or at least partially) into some other form before it becomes detritus instead of just a piece of lettuce or spinach??</p>
<p>OK, now where other than on CC can we have this kind of discussion, bovertine?? :D</p>
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<p>Then there are words I avoid altogether, like “forte”. The language purist would pronounce it “fort”, but the common pronunciation is “for-tay”.<<</p>
<p>I look into this thread only occasionally, because I can’t keep up with all the details of who said what. Plowing through detritus of fast-moving, contentious threads is not really my forte.</p>
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But your poignant superlatives zip the key points to elite status and allow the third tier comments to lie fallow, waste away and decompose to coprolite.</p>
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LOL.
Yeah, I guess so. But people might be too shy to tell you and it could stay there a long time. Especially after it begins to decay, because then they would have the added hesitation at using that word to tell you about it. :D</p>
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Bwahahah.</p>
<p>At that point, I think the word you’re looking for is “compost.”</p>
<p>bovertine-
Isnt that when the non-verbals come into play and people lick their front teeth hoping you’ll get the hint??</p>
<p>And SOG-- was trying to weave in our favorite childhood giggle-inducing word, coprolite, which I mentioned upthread somewhere. (post 536).
But you are right. It composts well before it works its way to dinosaur poop status .</p>
<p>Wow, has this thread gone off topic. We started out talking about the value of attending a prestigious university and ended up talking about oral crud! Come to think of it maybe we haven’t gone that far afield… ;0)</p>
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Leave it to jym to teach me a truly useful word. Lucky she didn’t edit herself :)</p>
<p>After a quick Google, I now have a new tool in my arsenal.
As in
“You’ve been full of cr&p for so long I think I would now have to say you are full of coprolite.”</p>
<p>Let me go drop this one in the engineering forum. Oh, and the use of “drop this one” was coincidental.</p>
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Pun intended??</p>
<p>Apologies for my frequent edits. 99% of the time its because I cant type worth… coprolite :)</p>
<p>… and also edit to add a thought-- like that I forgot to mention
LOL!</p>
<p>At least CC is not self-correcting. I have had several embarassing moments because of that.</p>
<p>Someone posted a new thread containing a link to a new abbreviated video version of DFW’s 2005 Kenyon commencement address. Worth a watch. Anyway, in my stream of consciousness way this small excerpt from the speech seemed relevant here.</p>
<p>"…if you’re worried that I plan to present myself here as the wise, older fish explaining what water is to you younger fish, please don’t be. I am not the wise old fish. The point of the fish story is merely that the most obvious, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about. Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude, but the fact is that in the day to day trenches of adult existence, banal platitudes can have a life or death importance, or so I wish to suggest to you on this dry and lovely morning."</p>
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<p>Not really a good example, though, because there are major medical centers associated with big-name elite schools but also major medical centers that are just as well regarded that are associated with less elite schools. Medicine is a very “flat” field with respect to prestige.</p>
<p>^Or not strongly associated with any university at all–the Mayo Clinic, for example.</p>
<p>Having said that, Mayo is now collaborating with University of Minnesota-Rochester on undergraduate health-related degrees:</p>
<p>[Bachelor</a> of Science in Health Professions - University of Minnesota | Rochester](<a href=“http://r.umn.edu/academics-research/programs/undergraduate/bshp/]Bachelor”>http://r.umn.edu/academics-research/programs/undergraduate/bshp/)</p>
<p>Are the Mayo’s in Arizona and Florida affiliating with universities/medical schools? Even though Mayo- FL is in Jax, UF’s Shands hospital has a presence up there. Affiliating with a med school brings training dollars., though they are getting slimmer and slimmer. But thats a topic for another thread</p>
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In my experience, the guy fixing my computer has often been a prime example of somebody who is not that good at adjusting to communicate well. Especially if he’s young, he assumes that I know a lot of things I don’t know. But since I still think the Internet is a system of tubes, he needs to break it down more.</p>
<p>I can’t think of any famous person these days who talks like William F. Buckley did. How many of you remember him? He constantly used very big words in his interviews. He couldn’t have talked like that to people in ordinary life, because they would have no idea what he was talking about.</p>
<p>^I’m not sure, jym. The original Mayo in MN has its own (small) medical school.</p>