Re: ADMIN: Pet Peeves

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

Originally, "rule of thumb" was a technical standard of sorts.
In 1150, King David the First of Scotland decreed that the
inch (ynche in those days) would be defined as the breadth
of a man's thumb at the base of the nail.  In an age when
accurate measurement devices were rare and prohibitively
expensive for the average workman it was good enough 
for anything anyone was trying to build.

Gene Kim-Eng

PS:  For another olde tyme technical term that is often
mistaken for somethinging naughty or sexist,. look up
"balls out."


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> Could you please put your comments into that context
> by tying to examples, anecdotes from documentation,
> impact on users, etc.? Thanks!

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