19 Sep
2006
19 Sep
'06
12:43 p.m.
Someone said (lost attribution)
The original IBM PC version was a an abortion.
Perhaps "abomination" would be a less-charged word...
certainly applicable in this case.
19 Sep
19 Sep
1:48 p.m.
On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Scott Quinn wrote:
Someone said (lost attribution)
"Abomination" certainly sounds much better. Calling something an
"abortion" to me sounds like a sloppy way of saying "half-baked",
"half-cocked", "still-needs-work", "unclear on the concept",
and so on.
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David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
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The original IBM PC version was a an abortion.
Perhaps "abomination" would be a less-charged word...
certainly applicable in this case.
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