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From: turney@cs.cornell.edu (Jenn Turney)
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1991 07:31:09 -0800
Subject: An Answer (Finally) to a Kate Question
To: <love-hounds@HAYES.IMS.ALASKA.EDU>
Expires: Sun, 30 Jun 1991 04:00:00 GMT
Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
References: <9106062148.AA02120@chimes.cs.cornell.edu> <1991Jun7.184618.18148@cbnews.cb.att.com> <1991Jun9.043238.28263@cs.dal.ca>
Sender: turney@cs.cornell.edu
Michael Graham asks (and asks and asks):
>Will someone please tell me what:
>
> "be running up that road
> be running up that hill
> be running up that building"
>
>means?
Well, Michael, no definitive answer, but I was musing on this the
other day and thinking about the relative slopes of these things
(roads, hills, buildings). Definitely increasing, from horizontal, to
gradually sloping, to vertical. A progression of the difficulty of
tasks she could tackle "with no problem" with the capabilities of this
other person that she can't with her own ("if I onlycould").
Jenn
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| turney@cs.cornell.edu | Dept of Computer Science | Cornell University |
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| I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear |
| saying the same things over and over again night after night, but God |
| knows the answer to THAT is, don't we all ANYWAY; might as well get |
| paid for it. -- Elaine Dundy |
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