On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 01:01 +0200, Mick Krippendorf wrote: > Maybe my English (and my memory) is just not so good. I'm german, and > here "abnormal" and "anormal" are both negations of "normal", but with > a slight difference in meaning. "anormal" means just "not normal", > whereas the meaning of "abnormal" is more like "perverted". That's of > course the better word for the case at hand.
>From my understanding, the prefix "ab-" comes from latin (away /away from) - which can also be shortened to "a" in some usages. (e.g. abnormal) The prefix "an" - which is more commonly shortened to "a" comes from the greek - meaning "without" (e.g. anaerobic ) I agree that "abnormal" would be the better term here - as it does /can have normalisation information, just not in a standardised manner. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list