On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 12:44:13PM +0100, Smylers wrote: > Paul Johnson writes: > > > To be clear, my tongue was firmly in my cheek for that last > > suggestion, but that doesn't seem to travel too well over SMTP. > > Sure, I realized it was a cheeky suggestion. > > But there are enough UK folk about who complain about -ize being “an > Americanism” that there might've been readers who genuinely thought > ‘minimize’ is wrong in the UK. > > > And the myriad smileys which adorned my initial message seem to have > > been similarly lost. > > Since my previous mail, my MP3 player started playing this podcast at > me, on the linguists of “maths”: http://relprime.com/thelexicon/ > > So maybe Math::Boolean::Minimise would be the best name, to annoy > everybody equally?
If anyone, beyond Smylers and me, is interested in more of this stuff, I recommend http://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/ by @lynneguist, author of the podcast above. But that's quite enough now for this forum... -- Paul Johnson - p...@pjcj.net http://www.pjcj.net
