High School Topic

[Phil Kerpen]

On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, C. Rutledge wrote:

> 1)  Does anyone know what the current High School CX and LD topics are?

CX-- The federal government should establish a policy to substantially
increase renewable energy use in the United States.

LD topics I don't know off-hand; check out the URL in my sig.

> 2)  What is the listserv for HS debate?  Is it CX-l or something else?
>
> 3)  How do you subscribe?

Send an email to listproc at debate.net with
subscribe cx-l C Rutledge
in the body of the message.

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>From  Mon Oct 13 14:00:58 1997
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Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 14:00:58 -0500
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To: Team Topic Debating in America <EDEBATE at LIST.UVM.EDU>
From: Nick Ellinger <ellingnd at CTRVAX.VANDERBILT.EDU>
Organization: Vanderbilt University -- College of Arts and Science
Subject: Re: English and "delimit"
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Steven Venette wrote:
>
> SCOTT HARRIS wrote:
>
> > A pet peve.  The word "delimit" means exactly the opposite of its common
> > use in debate.  Delimit is to draw limits.  The word is "unlimit."
> >
> >  #####LOCO IN LAWRENCE#####
>
> I appreciate your reminder to the community about the meaning of
> delimit.  I do, however, question your alternative.  "Unlimited" is a
> fine adjective, but "unlimit" is a pretty terrible "verbification" (no
> offense intended).  Might I suggest "expand," or perhaps, "derestrict."
>
> Sorry to bore you all with a tangent.

I thought that delimit was a noun, as is "After I killed deguy, I took
debody over delimits of decity."

Also, verbification is too verbose.  The verb for turning a noun or an
adjective into a noun is "to verb" or "verbing."  The problem is that
verbing weirds language.

Depending on the connotation you wish to connotate, you'd want different
words for unlimit.  A krump unlimitation would a "freeing", whereas a
bad one would "anarchization" or anarching/to anarchy.

Don't apologize for tangents.  Without tangents, there would be no
circle and without circles, the world couldn't go round.

Nick Ellinger

First, learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
        -- Epictetus