From: jim stasheff <jds@math.upenn.edu>
To: Michael Fourman <Michael.Fourman@ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Publication of writings by Alexander Grothendieck
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 17:53:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1Nh6Gh-0001it-8t@mailserv.mta.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <27992A5A-9DED-4758-A0B9-D226D74326A7@ed.ac.uk>
Michael Fourman wrote:
> Googling "baton rompu" gives some consensus. Eg
>
> Je dirais qu'une conversation à bâtons rompus est une conversation qui
> n'est pas préparée, qui part un peu dans tous les sens...
>
> ''A *bâtons* rompus'' désigne une *conversation*plutot désorganisée.
> Alors qu'en Afrique, une technique consistait à faire tourner un bâton
> (le bâton à palabres), le détenteur étant seul habilité à parler.
> Le bâton rompu laisse chacun libre de parler comme bon lui semble
>
> Such a conversation could also be friendly and warm. I don't think we
> need to infer some different meaning...
My interest was purely linguistic
I had found also a tyoe of parquet floor
and Ronnie found yet another woody meaning
jim
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-14 22:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-12 22:09 Publication of writings by Alexander Grrothendieck Ronnie Brown
2010-02-13 21:49 ` jim stasheff
2010-02-14 19:53 ` Publication of writings by Alexander Grothendieck Michael Fourman
2010-02-14 22:30 ` Ronnie Brown
2010-02-14 22:53 ` jim stasheff [this message]
2010-02-15 15:08 ` Publication of writings by Alexander Grrothendieck Johannes Huebschmann
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