Date:    Mon, 18 May 1998 11:22:45 -0500
<br>From:    Mark Mandel <Mark[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]DRAGONSYS.COM>
<br>Subject: enqueued
<br>
<br>>>>>> "Donald M. Lance" <engdl[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]SHOWME.MISSOURI.EDU> writes >>>>>>>>>
<br>Your message has been enqueued and undeliverable for 1 day
<br>
<br>A Canadian server was unable to complete delivery of a msg I sent but will try
<br> off and on for 3 more days.  I'm sure it will
<br>get through to the addressee on Monday when the office it's being sent to stokes
<br> the ole computer.  (I'm not asking
<br>what's going on; I understand that.  See next comment)
<br>
<br>This 'enqueued' (enqued in USian) is reminiscent of the 'undecode' that I posted
<br> earlier.  Is there a redundancy or a
<br>pleonasm at work here?  There are only two instances here, and we all know it
<br> takes three trees to make a row, but do
<br>we see a pattern emerging here?  Earlier I joshed about geek grammar, but some
<br> kind of linguistic principle rather than a
<br>"mistake" must account for these forms.
<br> <<<<
<br>
<br>Pas du tout.*  As I read this word, "en-" is not a negative ("un-" or "in-"),
<br> but an, umm, insertive? preposition.
<br>        "to enqueue" would = 'to insert into a queue'
<br>as
<br>        "to enroll" = 'to enter (someone) into the roll (=membership/student
<br> list)'
<br>and
<br>        "to encase" = 'to put (something) into a case or casing'.
<br>
<br>"Enqueued and undeliverable" = 'has-been-put-into-a-queue and
<br> is-unable-to-be-delivered'.
<br>It's waiting on line, as we [ex-]New Yorkers say; you others would say "in
<br> line"; nothing to do with "on-line services".
<br>
<br>* 'Everybody dance'?? ;-)\
<br>
<br>-- Mark
<br>
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