Twisted Panglossia

[Jack Diederich]

On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 08:09:39PM -0000, Dave Benjamin wrote:
> In article <mailman.1054839913.384.python-list at python.org>, David Mertz wrote:
> > But I've noticed something both on the Twisted list, and when Twisted
> > has come up here on c.l.py recently.  The Twisted developers have a
> > greater excess of enthusiasm for their package than do the developers of
> > other large frameworks (even more than my Pollyannaishness in my
> > ironically confessed advocacy of my own little tools).
> 
> Really? I had no idea you were Polynesian! ;)
> 
> A search for "Pollyannaishness" on Google returns 3 results. Merriam Webster
> offers no definition. Care to elucidate this obfuscation? =)
> 

Pollyanna n,
 an excessively or blindly optomistic person
 also, Pollyannaish

so if you want to be a grammar nazi it was Pollyannaish, but I didn't notice
the difference until you mentioned it.

-jack