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Jay Beavers wrote:
> Can we attribute the word 'Shunt' to you Bruce?

    My Oxford Concise Dictionary includes a listing for "shunt" specifying 
its origin in Middle English (i.e.- 1150-1500AD, hundreds of years old).

>  I was using this term a
> few months ago to describe a jury-rigged portion of my software development
> project and was stunned when my co-workers didn't understand the term.  I
> had to explain to them the whole concept of a 'cheap universal part that
> works as a stand-in for a real part in an emergency basis'.

    Well, a lot of us are still working on acquiring English as our first 
language...

> Bruce -- here's to you on SunDog -- I still think of that game as the best
> I played.  Between it and the Dao of Objects, you got a good thing goin'.

    Ditto.  I'm playing it through again.  It's sort of weird sitting in 
front of a Windows/NT box running an AppleII emulator but it's a good sort 
of weird. 

-- 
Nathan Engle             Electron Juggler
Indiana University       Dept of Psychology
nen...@indiana.edu       http://ezinfo.ucs.indiana.edu/~nengle
"Some Assembly Required"