On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 10:18 AM dn via Python-list <python-list@python.org> wrote: > >> I am confuzzed. > > > > It's a common condition. > > There are three components: > 1 From the Greek: "con" meaning 'against' or 'unable'. > 2 From tech-jargon (and the Australian habit of shortening every word in > the English language): "fuzz" is the contraction of two highly-technical > terms, famously applied in intro courses and by naive job-interviewers. > 3 From English: the suffix "ed" meaning past tense. > > Thus, (smirking!) "confuzzed" is the psychological term for people who > have never been able to bend their minds around the "fizz-buzz" coding > challenge. > > > PS am running for cover before @Chris reads this...
Good idea, you never know what I might have been drinking, and therefore what materials could have been sprayed across the screen when I read that! :D ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
