What is the language "British"?
Anne Wilson
cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk
Wed Aug 30 09:35:08 UTC 2006
On Tuesday 29 August 2006 22:44, Ed Greshko wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > According to my English teacher 'nice' means 'precise' and should not be
> > used in any other context. Actually, her influence is still strong -
> > it's a word I still avoid even after more than half a century.
>
> Hummm... I always thought nice meant "run a program with modified
> scheduling priority".
Doesn't that increase precision?
Anne
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