Re: "Tuits"
Gurusamy Sarathy (gsar@engin.umich.edu)
Sun, 28 Jun 1998 22:40:21 -0400
On Sun, 28 Jun 1998 19:32:23 PDT, Larry Wall wrote:
>Gurusamy Sarathy writes:
>: 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. :-)
>
>Ain't you s'posed to be workin'? :-)
Darn tuitin'.
- Sarathy. :-)
gsar@engin.umich.edu