Re: "Tuits"
Gurusamy Sarathy (gsar@engin.umich.edu)
Sun, 28 Jun 1998 22:20:35 -0400
On Sun, 28 Jun 1998 16:21:34 PDT, Larry Wall wrote:
>There is no relation to the word "tuition", though we sometimes make
>puns on "round tuition", since tuition is what enables you to study
>something. A happy coincidence.
There are other myriad free-associations that come to mind.
Since it is usually given for free, it sits well with gratuity. Though,
too much of that becomes gratuitous.
When my lack of tuits weighs heavily on the mind, I often refer to it
as tuitage. When that's not the case, I consider myself fortuitous.
Oddly, some seem to have that kind of luck in perpetuity.
Of course, none of this is probably intuitive, but that's just lack of
tutelage. :-)
- Sarathy.
gsar@engin.umich.edu