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From: roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
Subject: Re: Re: POSIX bashing (readline bashing)
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Date: Thu, 11 Apr 91 15:22:19 GMT

decot@hpisod2.cup.hp.com (Dave Decot) writes:
> If you think that the fact that something is a suffix means it can be
> applied to anything, you're not a very good studant.

	But, if you *don't* think that the fact that something is a suffix
means it can be applied to anything, you're not a very good hacker.  Or
should that be hackant?  See the intro to the jargon file for an explanation
of verbification.  Or one of the appendicies of George Orwell's 1984,
dealing with NewSpeak.  Even William Safire, that staunch defender of the
English Language, has been known to verbify on occasion.
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