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Re: "Conundrum" meaningless?

>On 25 Jan. Harvard Bullwhocker wrote (in part): "if [Holmgren is] referring
>above to "conundrum" as a term of art in computerese, its "meaninglessness" is
>surely beyond my ken."
>
>No, it's not meaningless; but it *is* a made-up word (originally Oxford
>University slang, as befits a pseudo-Latin word) -- Oxford English Dictionary
>and Eric Partridge's "Origins" are both entertaining on the subject.
>						Eric V.T.
>
Hey, enough of this honorificabilitudinatibus, already.
Harry

Harry Binswanger
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