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Article #22041Re: New buzzword
From: Ken Leonard
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1990 18:36
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1990 18:36
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In article <4197@brazos.Rice.edu> preston@titan.rice.edu (Preston Briggs) writes: * I support the immediate drafting of the buzz-adjective "hemi" * . . . - And how many of us are old enough to remember that the colloquial use of hemi-whozis came from the days of "muscle" cars with "hemi[spherical]-head" engines? - Aside from which, simply as an arbitrary prefix, the French[?] fashion- marketing term equivalent of "hemi" is "demi". Whichfrom derive such things as the "demi-bra", which is designed to display more that what's really there, or at least to make a maximal display. Which leads us into the wonderful world of computer-marketing. . . - * . . . * sign me * "Embarrassed" - You should be! - p.s. Who is "Tera"?
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!udel!burdvax!gvlv2!kleonard From: kleonard@gvlv2.GVL.Unisys.COM (Ken Leonard) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: New buzzword Message-ID: <483@gvlv2.GVL.Unisys.COM> Date: 10 Jan 90 18:36:09 GMT References: <5945@eos.UUCP> <4197@brazos.Rice.edu> Organization: Unisys Defense Systems, NISD, Great Valley Laboratory Lines: 21