Yes. it's lovely, satisfying compound. You could try translating it into
German?
As to this counting and age business, I believe the Chinese take on this is
to credit a child with a year when it's first born, but I don't know whether
they're ignoring the zero or counting the time in the womb. I've always
understood that the Western way is one of counting not years but
anniversaries.
joanna
> Coorection to my last: I was born on 51 years ago at 8.20pm anniversary
> tonight (not last night)so by my reckoning I'm still fifty till later,
> having then completed fifty years, on the other hand I am talking
> mathematical rubbish, the zero is the problem. The Earth for sure will
> have
> (roughly) completed fifty-one orbits to that (not exactly) point but I
> will
> be just beginning another turn of being. I think!
>
> Query - how to present a compound in printface:
>
> in this longinaloneingweallliveinitness
>
> doesn't look right on the page. It works if spoken , but how to ....?
>
> Best
>
> Dave
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 1:04 PM
> Subject: Re: Local Poetic Culture
>
>
>> Hey that's a point of interest Joanna: I was fifty last birthday, now I
>> interpret this as meaning I began to be fifty a year ago but only became
> so
>> at midnight (or whatever, strictly speaking it was 8.20 last night) so
>> now
> I
>> am beginning to be fifty-one, which is a process for the next
>> twelvemonth,
>> as far as these things mean anything. It's a bit akin to the arguments
> about
>> when the new millenium begun: 2000 or 2001?
>> I reason it like this: when I was born I was nought, on the first
>> anniversary of that I was 1 (not out) so therefore my fiftieth birthday
>> (last year) was the fiftieth anniversary of my being nought rather than
>> my
>> fiftieth year to heaven. So that now I am fifty-one I am truly fifty (and
>> hold my head up high).
>> I think your cricketing analogy works well with this, and thanks for the
>> applause from the pavilion!
>>
>> All the Best (and to Old Grouchy)
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Joanna Boulter" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 12:34 PM
>> Subject: Re: Local Poetic Culture
>>
>>
>> > Congratulations, both on the detective work and on your half-century.
>> > 50
>> not
>> > out is a good score, and merits a burst of applause from the pavilion.
>> >
>> > best joanna
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "David Bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
>> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> > Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 2:05 AM
>> > Subject: Re: Local Poetic Culture
>> >
>> >
>> > > I'm slow on the responses these last few days Rebecca as I and my
> aides
>> > > have
>> > > been busy on detective work, but now, as it's 1.40 in the morn here,
> and
>> > > that we are now (again now, but for the first time this) within a
> hair's
>> > > breath of the identity of the psycho-drug-dealer, who would cut me
>> > > up,
>> > > bleed
>> > > me, skin me, because of an incident begat of a dodo, and have also
>> > > uncovered
>> > > stuff I wouldn't have imagined a week ago about local affairs in the
>> > > process, and too the ban on me at the Arts Centre is going to be
>> > > discreetly
>> > > lifted, in that inimitable 'English' style which consists of behaving
> as
>> > > if
>> > > it never happened in the first place and let's hope nobody notices,
> but
>> > > now,
>> > > as I said before, but repeat for a first breathing space, a stop-gap
>> just
>> > > gasped at, but now again, I feel much that can be said apropos your
>> post,
>> > > I
>> > > like it, I can feel the too much-again of the world coming on in all
> the
>> > > observations, the percepts, the sketches of individuals and
> actualities,
>> > > that crowd, throng, bustle, jostle to be let in, that that that (like
>> > > that?!) swamps articulation in its recursive generations of tales to
>> tell,
>> > > that as that I am almost two hours into my year fifty-one, for it is
> my
>> > > birthday and my sentence is more than half-done, it is perhaps
>> > > appropriate,
>> > > in lieu of future parentheses, that now I
>> > >
>> > > pause and take breath.
>> > >
>> > > All the Best
>> > >
>> > > Dave
>> > >
>> > > (all the above means is that I'll get back to you on this stuff anon,
>> > > time,
>> > > memory and concentration permitting!)
>> > >
>> > >
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