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Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?



On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 14:58 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > Le samedi 28 janvier 2006 à 21:16 -0600, Manoj Srivastava a écrit :
> >>         God. Is this supposed to be rational technical discussion, or
> >>  an exercise in jejune mud slinging.
> >
> > Deliberate use of words a non-native English speaker cannot understand
> > won't help your argumentation.
> 
> How is "jejune" unfair?  How can I predict which words you will or
> won't know?  Maybe Debian should ship a dictionary.  Oh wait, it does.

Manoj probably thought (as I did, until I ran dict) that jejune
is a French word never used in English.

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