Re: Dumb Finder scripting question
Re: Dumb Finder scripting question
- Subject: Re: Dumb Finder scripting question
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:38:39 -0800
On Dec 14, 2007, at 3:07 PM, Mark J. Reed wrote:
Sorry, I don't know what Akua Sweets is. To munge is to mess with.
Originally specifically to mess *up*, I believe.
See <http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/M/munge.html>, also <http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/M/mung.html
>; it's unclear which came first, though it seems likely that they
are related. Mark was probably using "munge", sense 3:
"3. To modify data in some way the speaker doesn't need to go into
right now or cannot describe succinctly (compare mumble)."
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering
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