Re: A86: AAAAAARGH!!!!

To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: A86: AAAAAARGH!!!!
From: ZeromusMog@aol.com
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 00:26:07 EST
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In a message dated 11/30/98 7:51:45 PM Pacific Standard Time,
assets@eden.rutgers.edu writes:

<< A rather innocuous first post, eh? >>

That's a very odd word. In fact, innocuous is innocuous itself. The following
is copied from AOL's online Webster dictionary:

in*noc*u*ous (adjective)

[Latin innocuus, from in- + nocere]

First appeared 1598

 1 : producing no injury : HARMLESS

 2 : not likely to give offense or to arouse strong feelings or hostility :
INOFFENSIVE, INSIPID

 -- in*noc*u*ous*ly (adverb)

 -- in*noc*u*ous*ness (noun)

Just thought that this was an interesting word. I was probably pronouncing it
wrong in my head... oh well. Guess us programming freaks are obsessed with
what things mean. :)

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