[TheForge] Re: Coak

[Mike Spencer]

Bruce wrote:

> I find myself cringing every time I compose a message in which I
> need to name that well-known product of partial combustion of
> coal...I really don't want my every email to be subject to scrutiny
> by the authorities.

That SMACKs of paranoia, a dangerous CRACK in your mental landscape.
They're scanning all our email anyhow so yr beating a dead HORSE.
Trying to find alternative spellings for all those recreational
pharmaceutical slang words will make a HASH of your text.  Will you
write about your forge's FIREPOTTIE or the pile of JUNQUE out back?

> Of course, I wouldn't insist that anyone ELSE use this spelling, I'm
> mainly interested whether you'd recognise the meaning.

Oh, sure.  We'uns blacksmiths are a pretty bright bunch.  When I first
met a large bunch of blacksmiths in one place -- the '76 ABANA
conference -- I was intrigued to observe that half of us had
university degrees in difficult subjects or even doctorates while the
other half spoke ungrammatical English, chewed tobacco and performed
feats at the anvil indistinguishable from magic.  So yeah, we'll know
what you mean if you call it coque.

You could even go with the well-established term the Brits use and
call it breeze.

Digressing only slightly, do you have a reliable and cheap source of
breeze?  AFAIK, there's no easy way for me to get it in Martitime
Canada although I did a demo in Ontario circa '84 in a shop that used
it exclusively. (The proprietor has since moved to the US so I can't
chack with him now.)

Since the spooks are presumably scanning *all* email, and since
fulminant devices and the political postures of a certain Abrahamic
religion  have replace Pinko Commies as the Great Threat to Free
Markets and Capitalism, I'd be more concerned about oenophile
discussion of TERROIR or of the BOMBES of Alan Turing than about
passing reference to breeze.  The DEA is sooooo 20th century but
attacks  from persons of semitic complexion and 8th c. mentality,
whether digital of fulminant, are in the NSA's 21st c. crosshairs.

FWIW,
- Mike

     This has been you frivolous, off-topic digression for the day.
     You should take any perceived or implied political position as
     satire. :-)