[Magdalen] Terminology query (was Re: speaking of downsizing...)

[Lynn Ronkainen]

>>Marion, a pilgrim    I am dinosaur.  Hear me roar!


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From: "Marion Thompson" <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2015 12:37 PM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Terminology query (was Re: speaking of 
downsizing...)

> To me, that's a New-Speak evangelical one, that I first ran into during 
> yet another miserable class across the road at Wycliffe College.  :-( 
> Everyone knew it save me.  Oh, well, I can at least sing along now.  Our 
> area bishop loves Shine Jesus Shine and It is well.  I guess I'm the one 
> who is out of step.
>
> Marion, a pilgrim    I am dinosaur.  Hear me roar!
>
> On 4/1/2015 11:41 AM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford wrote:
>> How many people in the TEC tradition know the hymn, "It is well with my
>> soul" ?
>>
>> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
>> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
>> except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 8:40 AM, Kristin Rollins <kristin at verumsolum.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> It is amazing, though, how some of those terms can seem like everybody
>>> knows them until you are somewhere else. And then you don't know which
>>> words are the ones that will make people look at you like "WHAT did you
>>> just say?"
>>>
>>> I think I had the same experience with hymn tunes. There were the tunes
>>> that EVERYBODY knew back home, and in most churches I visited other
>>> places near there. But it took a long time to figure out which ones
>>> would get a "we've NEVER sung that tune before" reaction from choir and
>>> congregation down here.
>>>
>>> Kristin
>>>
>>> --
>>>    Kristin Rollins
>>>    kristin at verumsolum.com
>>>    Portsmouth, VA
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 31, 2015, at 08:49 PM, Scott Knitter wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 4:50 PM, Kate Conant <kate.conant at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Maybe we can go on to various words for
>>> couch/davenport/sofa/Chesterfield
>>>>> ???? <grin>
>>>> Our Canadian organist/choirmaster in East Cupcake would use terms like
>>>> Chesterfield as though everyone everywhere used that term. I remember
>>>> a choir party at his house when his wife told one of the tenors she
>>>> had picked up a dropped glove of his and put in on the Chesterfield.
>>>> He blinked and said, "Quick: name three synonyms for Chesterfield!"
>>>> hoping one of them would enlighten him as to where his glove was.
>> .
>>
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