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Seeking Minimal Python Project Name (was: [pypy-dev] Re: [ann]MinimalPython project)

Steve Holden sholden at holdenweb.com
Mon Jan 13 12:07:47 EST 2003 
"Laura Creighton" <lac at strakt.com> wrote in message
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> > On 13 Jan 2003 07:27:46 -0800
> > Paul Rubin <phr-n2002b at NOSPAMnightsong.com> wrote:
> > > I don't see pithy as having negative connotations beyond sounding a
> > > little bit like "pissy".  But I'm not that crazy about it anyway.
> >
> > It does look a lot like pity, which gives me negative vibes.
> >
> > /Mikael
>
> To pith a frog is to kill it by destroying its central nervous system
> (usually by passing a needle through it).
>
> 'Pithy' is one of those words, which (unless you are doing anatomy)
> almost exclusively shows up as part of the phrase 'pithy saying'.  It
> started out with the meaning 'precise and to the point'.  These
> days most people who use the expression believe that it means
> 'trite, hackneyed ...  a cliché'.  (And I sure surprised people recently
> when I thanked them for calling something I said 'pithy'.  Alas,
> no compliment was intended ...)
>

Perhapth they had a lithp?

regardth
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