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Re: The Second Great Spelling Check (Re: Package descriptions and making them better)



On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 12:15:49AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> - its perversity and horribleness, designed by Don Woods and James Lyon, who
> + its perverseness and horribleness, designed by Don Woods and James Lyon, who
>   
> I have to disagree with this change to intercal. My dictionary lists
> perversity as a synonem of perverseness. It's also the wording the
> upstream author chose, in a well-written and amusing document.

Heck, the word was even used in the name of a play, _Sexual Perversity
in Chicago_.

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