Subj : PING Question To : Nancy Backus From : Barry Martin Date : Thu Feb 27 2020 08:28:00 Hi Nancy! NB> At least you were writing down your answers.... Our son, in his NB> academic kindergarten math classes, wasn't writing down NB> anything... his teacher knew that he understood the concepts, so NB> couldn't figure why he wasn't producing anything on the tests... NB> She brought it up at a parent-teacher conference, we all four NB> were there, teacher, kid and both parents... Richard said to the NB> kid, I know you know the answers, and the teacher knows that you NB> do too, but you still need to write them down so that she can NB> prove it to other people (or something to that effect)... You NB> could actually see the lightbulb go on over his head... Yup! Sometimes the obvious has to be explained! BM>> Maybe we just found why the new medication names are such a jumble of BM>> letters: have to make up a whole new word as most of the old words BM>> which could be used for combining are taken! ...Throw those Scrabble BM>> tiles and see what we come up with! NB>> Often the Brand names are something at least reminiscent of what the NB>> drug is supposed to be treating... and I think the generic drug name NB>> has some relation to what class of drug it is.... I realize you were NB>> just kidding about throwing the scrabble tiles, but that's really NB>> not how they do it... generally has something to do with the NB>> compound(s) making up the new drug(s).... BM> Yes, I was kidding about the Scrabble tiles but it sure seems like it BM> some times!! NB> Especially with the really complicated generic names... One I take ends in -lol and I always gets stuck on that part as Laugh Out Loud. I rarely use that abbreviation but for whatever reason with than medication name that's the part I see first and sticks. BM> Half-thinking of the 13- and 15-letter word categories on _Jeopardy!_, BM> most of which are relatively common usage and so not as bad as one BM> initially things when hears "thirteen letters!!". BM> Generalstaatsanwalt is 19. BM> Konsumgterproduktion is 21. BM> Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is 34. NB> And then there's antidisestablishmentarianism with 28 letters, NB> which we used to parade out back when I was in highschool... a NB> proper dictionary word even back then... ;) Yup! Need to combine several Scrabble games' tiles for that one! NB> But the longest word in the English language is smiles... there's NB> a mile between the two esses... Barry_Martin_3@ @Q.COM .... 500 millinaries = 1 seminary --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.47 wcECHO 4.2 ILink: The Safe BBS Bettendorf, IA --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .