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Speak English Boy 

Posted Wednesday 9th May 2007 13:07 GMT

What the ....does a "hypervisor-agnostic paravirtualisation interface" really mean, I've just about got used to "heterogenous network enviroments" and still think mixed network is a lot better. Can we not get back to naming things properly, a spade is a spade, not a manual terrestrial concavity enabler.

thankyou for your cooperation

Concavity? 

Posted Wednesday 9th May 2007 14:53 GMT

<pedantry>

Actually your description is incorrect, concave means to curve inwards, since when does a spade help you to make something curve? It helps you dig holes and you could legitimately use one to dig a square hole!

A spade would be a manual cavity excavation device, personally though, I would be more entertained by a manual cavity stimulation device, instructional video's on their use are far more interesting.

</pedantry>

Sort it out 

Posted Wednesday 9th May 2007 21:58 GMT

1) The spade is creating something concave (i.e. going inward), from a word which means "hollow" in English. A perfect curve is not necessary.

2) Even if you bother to argue that it *is* necessary, a spade still *can* be used to make an inward-curving hole, a concavity, and an alternative label for it does not need to encompass every possible use a spade can be put to. Otherwise you'd have to call it a: concavity-enabling, convexity-enabling, grave-digging, decapitating, worm-bisecting, snake-executing, turf-removing, sand-transferring, zombie-smashing, snitch-bashing, impromptu sword-clashing, pedant squasher.

And many more. The last one was of course just my little joke.

re: <pedantry> 

Posted Thursday 10th May 2007 08:28 GMT

<pedantry bloodymindedness="What are these videos in possession of?" />

Eats, shoots and never pays the bill.....

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