Re: DAW 1984 (Long)

In article <1179174774.545536.4940@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
norrin <adweiland@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dorothy J Heydt wrote:

She came up with one good word though. I can't spell it because
it involves diacritics I can't make, but its denotation was
"holiday" and its connotation was "horrible recurring event at
which the women have to work hard cooking and cleaning up all day
while the men sit and eat and amuse themselves."

Thanksgiving.

That's an example of the semantic area covered by the word.
That's not the word itself, which I believe begins with R.

Somebody will probably post it now. It's full of vowels with
assorted diacriticals attached to them, which I can't post (nor,
in most situations, read) because my newsreader is straight
ASCII.

Searching through saved files, I find the following, in which
someone identified it, but I can't tell what the vowels are
supposed to be (because of the above) nor whether anyone else
will be able to read it, but here goes:

There's a word <rad^C^midin> that means 'non-holiday, a time
allegedly a holiday but actually so much a burden because of
work and preparations that it^b^@^Ys a dreaded occasion;
especially when there are too many guests and none of them
help'.

If you can read the vowel that looks to me like ^C and the other
one that looks like ^m, then you can figure out what it is.

Dorothy J. Heydt
Albany, California
djheydt@xxxxxxxxxxx
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