[Sca-cooks] Word usage was Re: remove vs course

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Jun 6, 2006, at 7:41 PM, Terry Decker wrote:

> That's just being uncertain about uncertainty.

Or "may or may not be unverified..." But when someone says such-and- 
such is "probably apocryphal", what they almost invariably mean is  
that the thing _is_ apocryphal. Which, in general, secular usage,  
simply means it has not been verified.

Adamantius

> As when you quote Pliny but
> don't know it.  I was more bothered by a president of the ACM  
> labelling
> Weinberg's Law as being a quote from Anonymous.
>
> Bear
>
>
>> How are you on "probably apocryphal"?
>>
>> Adamantius
>
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