[geeks] can't wait for Vista

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 01:23:58PM -0500, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> It should be Esperanto.

Only if you are an employee of the Jupiter Mining Company.

The lingua franca of this century will be "Internet English". It's sort
of Newspeak but instead of deleting adjectives, they flourish. However
when it comes to describing quality, there are only two: crap and unuseable.

Other adjectives commonly used such as new, "nearly new", wonderful, excelent,
mint, minty (including as a flavor) etc are synonyms for crap. 

Synonyms for ususeable are "good condition", "works well", untested,
"worked when I stopped using it", etc.

Geoff.
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