Bakin@HI-MULTICS.ARPA (06/22/84)
From: Jerry Bakin <Bakin@HI-MULTICS.ARPA>
Look at the early Star Trek episodes. Spock IS tinted green. (Was
that my tv set? Space legs in an Ion Storm? Copper based blood?)
Also,
I haven't looked into the American Heritage Dictionary
recently, but SURELY it gives the wood chips/packing material
as the second definition?
Nope! It is the only definition given.
Is the American Heritage the one Nero Wolfe was burning page
by page because it claimed that "infer" and "imply" were
equivalent? O tempora, O mores. (O the tempura, O the
morels) O DI immortales!
Actually, in my edition (1974), they take great pains to make sure one
understands the two words are "carefully distinguished in modern
usage.... not interchangeable."
However it is a cruddy dictionary, I have been looking for any
dictionary where I can find the definition of "perjorative" (sic?) or
instantiate. Anyone got one? Can't wait to get my Oxford English
Dictionary on a chip.
Jerry.