[blml] Recondite apostle (was played or not?) [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[Grattan Endicott]

Grattan Endicott
grandeval at vejez.fsnet .co.uk
[also gesta at tiscali.co.uk]
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: <richard.hills at immi.gov.au>
To: <blml at rtflb.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 8:30 AM
Subject: Re: [blml] Recondite apostle (was played or not?) [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]


> Grattan Endicott recondited:
> 
>>>+=+ Edgar was nothing if not grammatical - at
>>>times to the point of obscurity for all but the
>>>recondite apostles. +=+
>>>
>>>+=+ As to what argument could persuade me in an
>>>appeal committee, I would listen with care to any
>>>suggestion that declarer has not played any card
>>>because he has not given any instruction as to a
>>>play consistent with a No Trumps contract.
>>>   ~ G ~   +=+
> 
> Jerry Fusselman asked:
> 
>>Whose suggestion would you listen to?  The table
>>director?  The DiC?  Declarer?  Defenders?  Would
>>you ignore the other side of the argument?
> 
> Richard Hills recalls:
> 
> I remember with joy an occasion when Grattan was
> deliberately excessively recondite, by inserting
> the word "autochthonous" into one of his postings.
> 
> Some foolish blmlers asserted that Grattan had made
> up a fake word.
> 
> Gordon Bower responded:
> 
>>>>Indeed a real word, though not one you hear very
>>>>often.
>>>>
>>>>Its antonym, "allochthonous," on the other hand,
>>>>you will hear very frequently -- if you are a
>>>>geologist in Alaska, and we have at least one of
>>>>those on this mailing list. (It was news to me
>>>>to discover, after the spelling bee, that the
>>>>words also have currency in other fields.)
>>>>
>>>>Let's see: maybe we can use this to simplify the
>>>>next edition of the alert rules: "Autochthonous
>>>>conventions are part of one's general bridge
>>>>knowledge and experience, but all allochthons
>>>>are allocated alerts."
>>>>
>>>>And anyone who takes that suggestion seriously
>>>>ought be allochtrocuted.
> 
+=+ With autogenous power ? +=+