Anonymous  +  961591 Wed, 04 Nov 09 04:51 PM A square courtyard bounded by buildings Anonymous

	Philip  +  961759 Wed, 04 Nov 09 08:46 PM plaza? garden? commons?   Take a look at Why be anonymous?. Philip Joined on Thu, Jun 23 2005 Veteran Member 8,733 At reise er at leve! - H. C. Andersen

	Delmobile  +  961973 Thu, 05 Nov 09 01:49 AM Quadrangle on college campuses, or "the quad" Delmobile Joined on Wed, Jan 2 2008 Contributing Member 1,082

	Avangi  +  962371 Thu, 05 Nov 09 12:26 PM Delmobile “Quadrangle on college campuses, or "the quad" ” Hi, Del. I always assumed the term "quadrangle" in this context included the buildings.  Am I wrong? On the other hand, the OP is ambiguous on this point. Best wishes,  - A. Avangi Joined on Mon, Nov 19 2007 Veteran Member 8,172 ". . . le plaisir delicieux et toujours nouveau d'une occupation inutile." - Henri de Regnier Context

	Delmobile  +  962834 Thu, 05 Nov 09 10:35 PM Well, I looked up quadrangle (after I posted of course, can't do anything that actually makes sense now can I) and apparently architecturally it's only supposed to apply when a single building comprises most of the surround. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrangle_%28architecture%29 But no, it's just the courtyard itself. In my very limited college experience, what we called the "quad" was hardly surrounded by a single building, but we called it that anyway. It was lovely then and it's lovely now. Delmobile

	Avangi  +  962881 Thu, 05 Nov 09 11:42 PM Many thanks, Del. In my case, it was four discrete buildings.  I didn't live in it.  (I lived in a bloody castle tower!)  So I can't remember to what extent the buildings communicated at the corners.  Maybe there was just a sidewalk between them.  But they did overlap, so they were not just corner-to-corner.  Sorry, no picture. But when we said, "I'm going down to the quad," we were usually speaking more about the buildings than about the enclosure. Avangi Apologies

	Delmobile  +  963482 Fri, 06 Nov 09 03:24 PM I'm sighing with satisfaction at the correct use of "discrete" :) Delmobile

	Avangi  +  963510 Fri, 06 Nov 09 03:52 PM We aim to please! Seems like I learned it from programming factory machinery.  A sensor which produced a single yes-or-no signal was "discrete." But my correct usages are generally offset by incorrect ones! Avangi Usages