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otiose vs odious

From: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 13:31:33 -0400
Message-Id: <200310101731.h9AHVXab008884@roke.hawke.org>
To: public-sw-meaning@w3.org 


Just to be clear, since I'm afraid some people didn't catch the
correction, Bijan was calling Tim's spec-stack argument [1] "otiose"
(pointless, superfluous, wasted) [2] not "odious" (abominable,
detestable, execrable) [3].

    -- sandro

[1] http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Stack
[2] http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn1.7.1?stage=1&word=otiose
[3] http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn1.7.1?stage=1&word=odious
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