[Sca-cooks] innocene and vocab

[Suey]

    I think Stefran ask how I could get such a good score that I did, 
without the prize of a a dinner in Phily mind you  :-) Could we have a 
contest from medieval Spanish to English?  Maybe I could beat Johanna O:-)
    Seriously, first of all I went to boarding school in the US when I 
was 14. My first semester of English lit consisted of Chaucer. When I 
walked into class and the prof started explaining our mission from then 
until Christmas, I died. The edition given to us did not have any modern 
English as today.    It was Chaucer the lady/prof was old with white 
hair, a spinster, seemed very prober, went to Dobbs Fairy when my age 
wearing a hat and gloves and took trains to go home for holidays.
    All of a sudden after pouring over the Chaucer assignment all night 
long, I was so fascinated, I hid under my covers with a flash light or 
hid in the shower to read on.. Dorm-mother caught me lots. . . Lit Prof 
would scream in class, 'girls don't you get  it, the nun is screwing 
with the priest?'  My father never permitted such language in our house 
. . . - so you know I kind of got interested in my age of innocence and 
this medieval vocabulary, not that I became a nun or visited a priest 
but interesting. . .
     Then google is a a grand help when in doubt.
     As Johnna has got me beat all the time because in Santiago we just 
don't have the libraries she has in MI and wherever I don't mind. I 
doubt that most of us have the years of experience she has on the search 
programs.
    But that is not important the idea is to try. Sure lots of us have 
little time so if we can only look up 5 words, that's ok. This entire 
contest represents our continual search for learning but you know I 
prefer that all of you beat me and play learning games than talking 
about someone's hot dog cookout.
Suey