Date:  Thu, 2 May 1996 21:25:07 -0500

From:  Dan Goodman <goodman[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]FREENET.MSP.MN.US>

Subject: Re: ADS-L Digest - 30 Apr 1996 to 1 May 1996



> > Date: Wed, 01 May 1996 19:16:40 -0400 (EDT)

> > From: "Peter L. Patrick" <PPATRICK[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]guvax.acc.georgetown.edu>

> > Subject: Re: "Language for Time Travelers"

> >

> > > Subj:    "Language for Time Travelers"

> >

> > > "Language for Time Travelers" by L. Sprague De Camp was published in

> > > Astounding Science Fiction in 1938. The magazine (now called Analog)

> > > might be ready for another article on the subject by now. If not, one of

> > > the other science fiction magazines might be interested.

> > >

> > > I think De Camp's article is most easily available now in _The Best of L.

> > > Sprague De Camp_.

> > >

> > > It was less inclusive than the title indicates; it concentrated on English.

> > >

> > > Dan Goodman

> >

> > I bet the DeCamp best known to ADSers is David. And I've wondered for

> > some time now, is there any relation between these two? Just how

> > common is the last name? (I've never heard it for anyone else.)

A quick check of the Web through AltaVista shows other De Camps --

including another David.



I suspect the two are distantly related.



Dan Goodman

(who is related to only two other Goodmans now living.)