Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 20:43:20 -0400
From: Jim Kling <jkling at nasw.org>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Yenching
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

I wish someone would change the subject heading on this thread. I keep seeing it and thinking it's a verb.

I keep wondering, is there some sort of secret activity going on in the club? Some Yenchers conducting a
mysterious practice behind closed doors?

On a whim, I looked it up on websters-online-dictionary.org. The closest match was one John Yench, author of
the book "A Universal Language for Mankind."
(http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0595654517/icongroupinterna/102-8187734-4661761?dev-t=DXL30F8BYB7AC%26camp=2025%26link_code=xm2)

in the book description: "From 1948 on, he has worked on a universal, self-consistent language, where a word’s
sound alone would reveal its meaning, without the need of a dictionary. He summarized his ideas in the
seventies, acquiring in the process, a Master's Degree at California State University. This book is the
compilation of his work since that time."

I am unsure what to make of this.

--
Jim Kling
science writer
Rockville, MD
http://nasw.org/users/jkling