Re: Ada Job Opportunity - Repost

[dweller@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (David Weller)]

In article <3jdtm4$rmf@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>,
Richard A. O'Keefe <ok@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> wrote:
>dweller@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (David Weller) wrote in response to
>Robert Eachus's summary of the trivium/quadrivium question:
>
>>Actually, in a brazen demonstration of honesty, I might suggest that
>>all your respondents had a _dictionary_ of some sort :-)
>
>That is not a brazen demonstration of honesty, but a brazen attack on
>the integrity of Eachus's (other) correspondents.  As it happens, I

De kie vi havas tiun ideon?

My apologies if you interpreted it this way.  The smiley was actually
meant to imply that _I_ looked it up (and to imply that anybody could
have looked it up).  It was definitely not an attack on anybody's
inteegrity, and I apologize publicly if you took it that way.  Alas,
the written medium is not quite sufficient for the nuances I meant.

Milpardono, mi petas.

>Klingon dictionaries are at home, with another English one.  Of these,
>the only one to define either of the terms is Cassell's Latin dictionary,
>which defines "quadrivium" as "a place where four roads meet; a cross-roads",
>which is not the relevant sense.
>
You must not have the trusty American Heritage Dictionary :-)



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