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Message no. 1
From: "Mark Steedman" <M.J.Steedman@***.rgu.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: SR: school quality
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 13:30:04 GMT
Victor Rodriguez, Jr writes

> >Oh, and although I did study them, I have never found the use for knowing
> >what a adverb, pronoun, or past participle is. ;)
> You only need to know these things if you plan on becoming an English
> teacher, in most cases. Sometimes you can trick everyone else into thinking
> you know what your talking about though.
> BTW, has anyone wondered what schools in 2055 are like, any armed guards or
> cyberware checkpoints? (just decided to make this relevant to the list)
> ---Sedah Drol
> --
There is a FASA example in the recent Denver adventure, though i've
forgotten the name, picture of a kit and 4 very varied runners on the
front.

Mark
Message no. 2
From: James Meiers <polbdm@***.unm.edu>
Subject: Re: SR: school quality
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 18:17:27 -0700 (MST)
On Fri, 5 Jan 1996, Mark Steedman wrote:

> Victor Rodriguez, Jr writes
>
> > >Oh, and although I did study them, I have never found the use for knowing
> > >what a adverb, pronoun, or past participle is. ;)
> > You only need to know these things if you plan on becoming an English
> > teacher, in most cases. Sometimes you can trick everyone else into thinking
> > you know what your talking about though.
> > BTW, has anyone wondered what schools in 2055 are like, any armed guards or
> > cyberware checkpoints? (just decided to make this relevant to the list)
I would imagine the corporate owned ones are, for nothing else to make
sure that some executive's ankle biter doesn't get kidnapped.
>
> ---Sedah Drol > > --
> There is a FASA example in the recent Denver adventure, though i've
> forgotten the name, picture of a kit and 4 very varied runners on the
> front.
It's called Divided Assaets. The kid's parents work for Ares and he gets
lost in the shuffle of a corporate extraction and the runners have t
figure out what to do with him. Someone hmade a list of some amusing
things to do with him such as flat out killing him, and roasting and
eating him. It was really sick.
>
> Mark
>

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