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Subject:RE: Ever see this word used this way? From:John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:Kevin McGowan <mcgowan -at- loran -dot- com>, TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 9 Dec 1999 12:07:15 -0800 (PST)
Well, you're almost right. The language was UNIX
programmer.
> I've never seen this before. I can only guess that
> the original author was
> translating a thought from another language to
> English with help of a poor
> dictionary or something...
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John Posada, Merck Research Laboratories
Sr Technical Writer, WinHelp and html
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