Electronic voting feasibility

[Patrick Maupin]

Christos "TZOTZIOY" Georgiou wrote:

> ISTM that Andrew (and Greg, initially) used the word "sound" as an
> adjective (~ "firm", "secure") and not as a noun ("sound" as what we
> hear).  So either you understood "sonic cryptography" or I missed the
> joke :)

Well, it _was_ a particularly lame joke, and there is no real defense
for that.

But I was confused why you thought I was using "sound" as a noun
rather than as an adjective, until I looked it up online.  I don't
know what particular resource you use, but I was mystified to find
that www.m-w.com does not have an entry for an adjective "sound"
meaning "acoustic."  I find this baffling -- not only is this an
extremely common usage (IMO), but in the dictionary itself, one of the
entries in the definition for "acoustic" refers to "sound waves"!

I guess I should find a better resource.  After all, their thesaurus
doesn't even know what a "synonym" is:

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/thesaurus?book=Thesaurus&va=synonym&x=0&y=0

Regards,
Pat