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nickdothuttonlast Monday at 11:47 AM2 repliesview on HN

As an aside, this is exactly the kind of nonsense you get when marketing or PR firms have control over final wording. Once had someone change "uninterruptible power supply" to "non-interruptible" and then finally "interruptible" and that is how it went out in the final press release. There was some harsh language that day.


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OJFordlast Monday at 9:50 PM

I could forgive un to non-, but what the hell was the logic in just removing non-? That it was like (it isn't) [in]flammable just because the 'in' isn't negating 'terruptible'?

Actually, even that doesn't make sense, you can't remove non- from non-inflammable either, that would only work if it was the 'in' removed.

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rwmjlast Monday at 11:58 AM

I hope this wasn't for a UPS company!

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