Todd,
While your logical transitions move you down some interesting rabbit
holes, if you are going to say stuff, at least check first.
On 30/08/2020 00:39, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote:
On 2020-08-28 23:51, Tobias Boege wrote:
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You do realize "invocant" is not even in the dictionary
Not true, Todd. Took me 5 seconds to find:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/invocant
Definition of /invocant/
*: *one that invokes
(esoteric or requiring special knowledge)?
And whilst we there:
Definition of /funny/
(Entry 1 of 2)
1a *: *affording light mirth and laughter *: *amusing
<https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/amusing> His account of the
war came in bits and pieces, sometimes bloody, sometimes funny.— Robert
Penn Warren
b *: *seeking or intended to amuse *: *facetious
<https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/facetious> Don't take him so
seriously; he was just being funny.
2 *: *differing from the ordinary in a suspicious, perplexing, quaint,
or eccentric way *: *peculiar
<https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/peculiar> My car has been
making a funny noise. —often used as a sentence modifierFunny, things
didn't turn out the way we planned.
3 *: *involving trickery or deception told his prisoner not to try
anything funny
Which is not the same as 'esoteric'
So operators are a 'funny' sort of function, is an apt use of the word
'funny'. But "operators are an 'esoteric' sort of function" does not work.
“Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a
word obviously lacks imagination.”
-- Mark Twain
I do have to look at it twice when I see it, but I do figure
it out. So is okay with me.
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