custead (01/14/83)
Actually the Webster's entry for intelligent is able to perform some of the functions of a computer <an ~ computer terminal> This is in fact a correct definition of the adjective when used in the phrase "intelligent terminal"...I don't know what point Dijkstra was trying to make (though perhaps one can guess....) The word bisexual originally meant "having the characteristics of both sexes -- hermaphroditic"...The meaning in popular use does not appear in many dictionaries and is QUITE different than the original meaning...English needed a word to described those who go both ways, and bisexual "sounded right". In exactly the same way that biweekly "sounds right" when you are trying to describe a newspaper that you get twice a week. Face it folks, language keeps changin'... custead of the western provinces
paul (01/17/83)
Hemidemisemiquaver! Need I say more?