Power and Virtual Organizations LO30107

From: AM de Lange (amdelange@postino.up.ac.za)
Date: 04/17/03


Replying to LO30097 --

Dear Organlearners,

Alan Cotterell <acotrel@cnl.com.au> writes:

>Your friends who 'cross the rectory too many times' are
> simply paying the price for this obseqiousness on the part
> of others.

Greetings dear Alan,

English is not my mother tongue. So when i saw the word "obseqiousness" i
did not have a clue what it meant. I looked it up in the dictionary and
what fun did i not have! It means adultury or or to be servile beyond own
principles. It is a word that i will surely not forget because it
describes exactly the situation which i tried to sketch.

In my own mother tongue we describe them as "twee-gat jakkalse". The
"twee"=two, "gat"=hole and "jakkelse"=foxes. Some spesies of foxes have
several entrances to their underground den. Trying to catch them by
sealing one entrance is impossible. One has to seal all entrances.

I see that "abseque" means the last office of the deceased, i.e., a
funeral service. My, would i not be glad when the present dispenstion of
fooling others with a show end.

With care and best wishes

-- 

At de Lange <amdelange@postino.up.ac.za> Snailmail: A M de Lange Gold Fields Computer Centre Faculty of Science - University of Pretoria Pretoria 0001 - Rep of South Africa

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