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From: Russ Hicks
Date: 21 Oct 2005
Time: 18:23:04 -0500
Remote Name: 24.1.61.18
Hi Arnie, .... You guys up there at Western Washington must really have a great class. Who is your professor? One of your fellow classmates, Vanessa Smith, also asked a very excellent question. See above. It's really a pleasure to teach students such as yourself. .... The driving force behind me writing this paper was to further my own understanding of covert stuttering, which is absolutely diametrically opposed to my type of stuttering. At first I simply could not grasp what was happening to them. They didn't even stutter! What was the big deal? Well, it turns out there really IS a big deal about covert stuttering! And when I began to explore the variations of iceberg density those categories just jumped off the paper at me. No one was more amazed than I was! Not only had I validated the legitimate existence of covert stuttering, I saw where all those categories fit into the big picture too. Pretty cool, eh? .... Regarding the extra credit problem, that is really more fun than anything else. A negative value along the Y axis yields super fluency which tends to sound more like a carefully rehearsed performance than a conversation. A negative value along the X axis yields the PURSUIT of people to talk to - or preach AT! As one guy above suggested, another name for these people is "a pain in the $#%*!" Ha, ha, ha! But surprisingly enough people like this really DO exist! .... As to what their icebergs would look like, it's sort of like describing the square root of negative one - or anti-matter. It's really mind-bending. I envision maybe an iceberg with so light a density that it rises completely out of the water like a balloon! But then it has a negative volume so it becomes ... ah... an ultra-light black hole? Ha, ha, ha! Fun to speculate, huh? I like your description of a RETTUTS. (Gosh that's hard to type!) .... I'm really glad you enjoyed the paper, Arnie. Students like you make all this worthwhile! .... Good luck in school. I really hope our paths cross one day! .... Russ