21 Apr
2006
21 Apr
'06
11:33 a.m.
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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This message is not an official statement of OSIS Center policies.