On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 04:33:45 -0800, Eelco wrote: >> Why do people use pretty when we already have words that carry more >> specific meaning? Because they are lazy! And laziness begets stupidity. > > No, that would be because they are not autistic. Most people like having > a repertoire of words with subtly different meanings in their natural > language, because there is a demand for this semantic richness.
+1 QOTW -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list