Still no new license -- but draft text available

Chris Ryland cpr at emsoftware.com
Thu Aug 3 15:14:29 EDT 2000


A better word for "75 cent" as in "75 cent word" (shorter and more direct,
plus being self-referential) is "sesquipedalian".
--
Cheers!
/ Chris Ryland, President / Em Software, Inc. / www.emsoftware.com
"Martijn Faassen" <m.faassen at vet.uu.nl> wrote in message
news:8mc9sl$po6$2 at newshost.accu.uu.nl...
> Grant Griffin <g2 at seebelow.org> wrote:
> > Tim Peters wrote:
> >>
> > ...
> >>     5. Licensee agrees that defining the difference between
> >>     clicking and not clicking is an epistimelogical impossibility.
>
> > I'm not for certain if you're a _Dutch_ bot, Tim, but if so, you get a
> > point here not only for wit but also for using a 75-cent word like
> > "epistimelogical" (which, BTW, I just used the mouse to copy--I didn't
> > dare try to spell it myself).
>
> And how right you are, as it's "epistomological"! As far as I know,
> Tim isn't a Dutch bot, but I'm Dutch, and naturally that means I know
> what the word means and even what it's spelled like.
>
> > One day, we native English speakers may or may not learn what this word
> > means.
>
> So, keeping up the image of Dutch omniscience:
>
> Epistomology is the study of knowledge.
>
> Epistomologists debate on what it means to know something, and therefore
> they don't really agree on whether they know they're debating this,
> or what knowing this would actually mean.
>
> Philosophers-like-recursion-too-ly yours,
>
> Martijn
> --
> History of the 20th Century: WW1, WW2, WW3?
> No, WWW -- Could we be going in the right direction?





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