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Re: Is your ISP Influenza-ready?

  • From: Joseph S D Yao
  • Date: Fri Apr 21 11:38:18 2006 
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 08:06:25AM -0700, Jay Hennigan wrote:
> Joseph S D Yao wrote:
> >On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 10:53:33AM -0700, David W. Hankins wrote:
> >...
> >>It's like someone intentionally optimized this function specifically to
> >>be the most pessimal.
> >...
> >
> >If you know the word "pessimal" [malus, pejor, pessimus = bad, worse,
> >worst], you should know that "most pessimal" is redundant - perhaps
> >allowable for emphasis - and that "optimized to be pessimal" is so much
> >an oxymoron it must be deliberate.  But why not just say "pessimized"?
> 
> Oh, stop being such a pessimist.   :-)


Optimally, it would be so.


-- 
Joe Yao
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