Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Knoppix Operating System :-) Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2024 06:47:40 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 12 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2024 08:47:41 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="e762e53ec9e8808879f7618c3ddfda81"; logging-data="1567945"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/cPOC6hbkZsQ7aamyX3E8X" User-Agent: Pan/0.155 (Kherson; fc5a80b8) Cancel-Lock: sha1:dCVB71GXKqjIHhV96nJKf1Rv72Y= Bytes: 1558 On 23 Apr 2024 05:25:15 GMT, rbowman wrote: > On Tue, 23 Apr 2024 03:07:11 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > >> What’s the opposite of “virtuoso”? Is it “vicioso”? > > Tyro, or 'tiro' in the Latin spelling for FNG. I thought a “tyro” was more of a “novice”. If a “virtuoso” having ability is “virtuous”, the opposite would be not so much the absence of ability, but the presence of downright anti-ability: not being “virtuous”, but “vicious”.