But: The link for the Red. Shakespeare-Company doesn’t work. Why?

Greetings (from Germany - I certainly would visit the RSC, if they would come over here!)

Greenangel

“The extremities of famine to which they were reduced, obliged them to eat our two eunuchs, for fear of violating their oath. And at the end of a few days they resolved also to devour the women.

“We had a very pious and humane Iman, who preached an excellent sermon, exhorting them not to kill us all at once.

“‘Only cut off a buttock of each of those ladies,’ said he, ‘and you’ll fare extremely well; if you must go to it again, there will be the same entertainment a few days hence; heaven will accept of so charitable an action, and send you relief.’”

I wanted to tell you something I thought was funny, from my College English 152 class, about research papers. Our first paper was on Macbeth. And when our professor was teaching us the Ellipses, he taught us the … and the full line ellipses, which he had a name for i that I forgot, but it’s used to take out a whole bunch of the play that you’re quoting when it’s parts of the line you don’t need. Since no one could think of it, one of the students said “That’s like an ellipses that has morphed into a hero right? Since it’s bigger and has a much stronger usage. So we’ll call it ‘Super Ellipses’.”

I thought that was pretty funny when he said that, and hearing the talk on Ellipses made me think of it.

I enjoyed the show, another 10 out of 10. Keep up the good work. And if you ever run out of ideas, I’m sure your fans, such as myself, can help you out. I know you have hundreds of them you need to get to. I’ll be looking forward to the next one.

Simon, I’m not sure why you seem so put off by my comment about “unabridged” as a quasi-lost positive. I don’t know of many general-use dictionaries that overtly call themselves “abridged.” (I could certainly be wrong.)

But I do know of many that call themselves “complete,” “unabridged,” or “complete and unabridged.”

However, a quick search at amazon.com shows only a few dictionaries that actually call themselves “abridged dictionary,” and these are specialized dictionaries. The most prominent examples are Black’s Law Dictionary and the Theological Dictionary of the New Testament. I never meant to say that dictionaries are never referred to as unabridged, just that they don’t tend to call themselves that.

welome in Austria - I’m a listener from Austria.

thanks from Brasil
Marisa

bitte (please, you’re welcome). It’s always good to be polite, and you get two for the price of one with “bitte”.

Bier (beer). Useful if pointing doesn’t work.

Gedankenexperiment (thought experiment). Self-explanatory to any physicist.