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From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
To: Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: A question about Dissociated Press
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 15:34:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vc51573a.fsf@rosalinde.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAF+z6FD_Ww7Azhf6_pwedHVByw9yBupTm7mtGtrgZ+B8ywEmQ@mail.gmail.com> (Xue Fuqiao's message of "Wed, 26 Jun 2013 21:05:01 +0800")

On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 21:05:01 +0800 Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com> wrote:

> In (info "(emacs) Amusements"):
>
>   Dissociated Press produces results fairly like those of a Markov
>   chain, but is however, an independent, ignoriginal invention; it
>   techniquitously copies several consecutive characters from the sample
>   text between random jumps, unlike a Markov chain which would jump
>   randomly after each word or character.
>
> I understand that "ignoriginal" in this sentence means "perceived to be
> original by its creator, but actually lacking in originality".  But what
> does "techniquitously" mean?  After a web search, it seems to me that
> this word only appears in the Emacs manual.  Any ideas?  (Sorry for my
> English.)

Those are both made up words (as are "userenced" and "properbose" at the
end of that paragraph), jokingly used to indicate what could happen
when you run the program.

Steve Berman



  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-26 13:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-26 13:05 A question about Dissociated Press Xue Fuqiao
2013-06-26 13:34 ` Stephen Berman [this message]
2013-06-26 14:52 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-06-26 23:04   ` Xue Fuqiao
     [not found] <mailman.2464.1372251912.22516.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-06-26 13:37 ` Rustom Mody
2013-06-26 19:09   ` Richard Copley

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