Re: otiose vs odious

Oops, sorry.

As scribe I completely messed that one.  "otiose" is not a word I've come 
across before.  (I did think "odious" seemed an odd choice of word in the 
conversation, but didn't have bandwidth to stop and question.)

#g
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At 13:31 10/10/03 -0400, Sandro Hawke wrote:


>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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Graham Klyne
GK@NineByNine.org

Received on Saturday, 11 October 2003 09:12:22 UTC