[TAG] Fwd: Your marriage essay

[Rick Moen]

[Jimmy was kind enough to mail me, out of the blue, commentary on an
essay I wrote recently, http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Essays/marriage.html .]

Quoting Jimmy O'Regan (joregan at gmail.com):

> 2008/9/1 Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>:
> > Quoting Jimmy O'Regan (joregan at gmail.com):
> >
> >> I just read your fascinating essay 'Kudzu and the California Marriage
> >> Amendment'; one niggle, however: 'Stanlislawa Walasiewiczowna' should
> >> be spelled 'Stanislawa Walasiewiczowna' (or, with full Polish
> >> diacritics, 'Stanis?awa Walasiewicz?wna')
> >
> > Thank you, sir.  I was copying a third-party source, and it didn't look
> > quite right, but I forgot I had a Polish-speaker I could check with.  ;->
> >
> 
> I actually found your essay while trying to take a break from Polish -
> I'm currently wading my way through 'Pan Tadeusz', first in English,
> then in Polish, proofreading the scans as I go to possibly send to
> Project Gutenberg. It thus came as something of a minor shock to find
> yet more Polish in your essay - and I was already in 'error checking
> mode', so... :)

It's good to hear that the tragic historical trainwreck caused first by
the "liberum veto", and then by Poland being in harm's way and attempting
to be a liberal parliamentary democracy midway between three of the most
powerful of Europe's autocratic dynasties (Catherine the Great,
Frederick II and Frederick William II of the Hohenzollerns, and several
Austrian emperors) produced _something_ good.

Anyway, one of the reasons I hastened to finish that essay is that my
family is going on holiday, starting tomorrow, on a cruise ship.  We're
going to be visiting London, Copenhagen, Berlin, Talinn, St. Petersburg,
Helsinki, Stockholm, Oslo, and London again, and arriving back on Sept.
19th.

My apologies for not having had time to help copyedit the September
_Linux Gazette_:  I've been busy getting ready to leave.