Re: Perl or Applescript w/ Excel
Re: Perl or Applescript w/ Excel
- Subject: Re: Perl or Applescript w/ Excel
- From: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 20:49:02 -0700
At 16:32 -0400 8/14/2002, Bill Cheeseman wrote:
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> There is no such word as "deliminated."
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Pia Zador probably meant "delimitated." My Oxford Universal Dictionary
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suggests that "delimitate" has the same meaning as "delimit," to wit, "to
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mark or fix the limits of; to define, as a limit or boundary." We don't
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necessarily need a synonym for the verb, but "delimitate" supports a nice
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adjective, "delimitative." So, he has a "delimitative file," namely, a "tab
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delimitative file." That is, the file partakes of the quality of
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tabdelimitatitude. (That one isn't in my Oxford Universal Dictionary, but
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what do they know about language, anyway?)
And elsewhere, Chris Nebel associates this discussion with "my equestrian
is". As one of probably fairly few people outside the folks who know
horses who has an idea what "laminitis" is, I found the association amusing.
(<www.laminitis.com> if you actually care.)
--John
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John Baxter email@hidden Port Ludlow, WA, USA
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