[Magdalen] Homing Pigeons.

James Oppenheimer-Crawford oppenheimerjw at gmail.com
Thu Dec 29 23:46:54 UTC 2016


Neither a borrower nor a lender be.....

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 Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 6:36 PM, Kate Conant <kate.conant at gmail.com> wrote:

> The Presbyterians would head you off at the pass with "debts" and
> "debtors".
>
> My father always said we Presbyterians were more in debt than those
> trespassers.
>
> Even now, I often says debts and debtors when we say the Lord's Prayer in
> English (though the Orthodox generally use the "other" translation).  Of
> course, when we say it in Greek we're all on the same page.
>
> Kate
>
> "What does the Lord require of you, but to do justice, love mercy, and walk
> humbly with your God?"
> Micah 6:8
>
> On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 5:40 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 12/25/2016 5:18:15 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> > jay.weigel at gmail.com writes:
> >
> > the  Lord's Prayer perfectly,
> > although the accents are sometimes placed  strangely and I wanted to
> giggle
> > at "tresPASSes". She is SO  serious!>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >
> >
> > In my experience, TRES-pass-es and TRES-pass are lost causes in
> > the USA.  It's all tres-PASS-es and tres-PASS.
> >
> > Putting the stress on the wrong syllable also changes the vowel
> > in the "pass" syllable from a short "a" to the "a" as in "cat."
> >
> > Can we ever head 'em off at the pass?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > David S.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>


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