Is your ISP Influenza-ready?

Fri Apr 21 15:06:25 UTC 2006

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.   :-)

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