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Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 08:00:50 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 14 Message-ID: <vpp63h$31cet$1@dont-email.me> References: <pan$96411$d204da43$cc34bb91$1fe98651@linux.rocks> <1smdnSjX3YoxgWf7nZ2dnZfqn_idnZ2d@earthlink.com> <llv30aFa6uvU3@mid.individual.net> <vde4b8$268qv$22@dont-email.me> <1396870532.749421730.052473.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <wrapper-20241001111737@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de> <vpl5uk$hhk$3@reader1.panix.com> <vpl91g$25q46$1@dont-email.me> <1976765442.762208809.808387.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <20250225130315.00004e34@gmail.com> <lhqvP.1323465$if26.592741@fx13.iad> <1924764604.762215659.468999.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <vplhqi$26ur1$5@dont-email.me> <mddplj48cec.fsf@panix5.panix.com> <vpodf9$2q6ak$1@dont-email.me> <gIUvP.1415796$21T3.1095919@fx18.iad> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 09:00:50 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="5663112188f1f002c68c712720ef74d4"; logging-data="3191261"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/dKED02lDPcFoQ3pC49bbv" User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Cancel-Lock: sha1:HuyaI1W0MzjR6j71shNRUhtCCuQ= Bytes: 2245 On Thu, 27 Feb 2025 07:43:08 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On 2025-02-27, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote: > >> Just as nobody says “awful” to mean “awesome”. > > To be fair ("To be fair..." "To be fair..." "To be fair..." -- > Letterkenny) that word's spelling was, I believe, "aweful" - at least > some of the time. I read somewhere of a story where, I think it was King James VI/I, complimenting an architect on his latest construction, used three adjectives that would be construed quite differently today. The only one I can remember was “awful”.