My old computer is dead: long live my new CHROMEBOOK

by Terry 34 Replies latest jw friends

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  Terry

  Good advice!

  Any suggestions?
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  finallysomepride

  using acer chromebook 11" since late 2013, most used computer I have, and I have few of them, beats windows most of the time.
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  compound complex

  Thanks, Terry, for your reply regarding the old way of doing things.

  I was waxing nostalgic for the era that you and I had, at one time, both inhabited. Rarely do I put pen to paper anymore. I inherited a fine hand from Dad, but -- mais alors! -- it has become dextrally painful if pursued at length.

  Pecking away at my hand-me-down Dell and Apple laptops suits me fine. I'm happy you have speedy, up-to-the-minute technology now. As a result, you shall become all the more fecund in your output. Not to intimate, however, that you have been a slacker when it comes to flooding the stacks with your MSS.

  I had forgotten about animadversions; thanks for the reminder that a two-bit word, however deprecated, is always de rigueur . . .

  CoCo
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  Terry

  Coco,

  When I first started doing essays in school, I drove the teachers nuts by injecting every possible sesquipedalian artifact of my vocabulary studies into each sentence. Luckily, my instructors' humility gave them a frame of mind to tolerate such hubris.

  There was only one lady, my surrogate mom, who encouraged me to communicate with others on THEIR level and not yours. This was a nice way of telling me I was being a Narcissist :)
  
  Using a fluffy vocabulary word in place of an ordinary one is like trying to read Mandarin instructions on how to program your VCR. (How is that for a stale example?:)

  I used to purposely read books way over my head which forced me to keep a dictionary handy. I had lists galore stuffed in pockets, on small cards and scraps of paper.

  Edgar Allen Poe had quite a sensitive awareness of the texture and resonance, assonance, and dissonance of his word choices. His sentences and that of Ray Bradbury greatly informed my youth's developing tastes.
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  compound complex

  I used to purposely read books way over my head which forced me to keep a dictionary handy. I had lists galore stuffed in pockets, on small cards and scraps of paper.

  How do I relate, Terry! I continue in this practice because I must (old habits die hard, with a vengeance). Kids in school came to me for the new words I coined. No wonder I was always getting beat up! Too, I teach a creative writing class to folks older than you and I. I particularly like odd usages of ordinary words:

  1) feeler: a person susceptible to fainting at circus sideshow exhibits

  2) domino: a large hooded cloak

  3) cartoon: an original pattern for stained glass work

  4) came: connecting lead for stained glass pieces

  5) dixie: a bilingual ten dollar bill, originating in Louisiana; "dix," French for ten

  6) angel: backer for a theatrical production
  

  THANKS!
  

  CoCo