Duke Ellington wrote:
>
> People with C.B.Es etc don't go around all the time with those initials
> attached to their names when write letters to people, so why do you attach
> C.E.T (a thing that is of far less worth than "C.B.E"s etc) when all that
> people want to see is your actual name or a nom de plume?
>
not that any of this is even remotely germane to the list/newsgroup, but
having seen this thread refuse to die, i have a question: what is so
much more worthy about a "CBE" than a "CET"? seems like the latter
(which seems to be some sort of certification?) is awarded based on some
objective criteria (testing?) and the former is an arbitrary recognition
by an outdated authority.
--ravi
ps: perhaps the "queen" uses some objective criteria also, but perhaps
if you can adopt the "nom de plume" of "duke ellington" you can humour
someone else adding some letters to his or her name?
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man is said to be a rational animal. i do not know why he has not been defined
as an affective or feeling animal. more often i have seen a cat reason than
laugh or weep. perhaps it weeps or laughs inwardly - but then perhaps, also
inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the 2nd degree. -- alasdair macintyre.
