[Python-Dev] timsort for jython

[Christian Tismer]

Gordon McMillan wrote:

 > For that you'd use "pat", as in "pat on the back".

Should have looked into dict.leo.org, before sending :)

 > "Pet" means (idiomatically) "stroke affectionately",
 > which is what you do to household animals & sexual
 > partners.
 >
 > And, incidentally, "tap" is "light blow" as with
 > hammer or finger, where "blow" used in any other
 > context will likely be taken to mean "oral sex"
 > unless you're obviously discussing movement
 > of a gaseous media or the act of setting off a
 > bomb.
 >
 > And that just covers those words as verbs (and
 > worse, I've probably missed a few meanings).

Any chance to learn all about that?

 > Don't you wish German were so, er, expressive <wink>?

In fact, it is. But I guess you have to be born here,
to know about all+1 of the nuances.

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