Re: IBM Micro-partitioning and software licensing - OT

Posted in 2005

Captain Pedantic — Sat, 5 Mar 2005 07:57:02 -0000 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

"John Carlson" <jwcarlson1@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote in message news:ci9i2195d32iejs0lpm60r7b4fsg8jmk05@4ax.com... > On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:18:23 -0500, "Art S. Kagel" > <kagel@bloomberg.net> wrote: >> From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913) >>Affine \\Af*fine"\\, v. t. [F. affiner to refine; ? (L. ad) + fin fine. See >>{Fine}.] To refine. [Obs.] --Holland. >> >>Art S. Kagel > > > Score one for the Yanks . . .8-) He didn't say there wasn't any such word, just that there isn't a verb "affine" related to the noun "affinity". The definition above is clearly of a word from a different root. And anyway, Noah Webster was a Yank too: his eponymous dictionary probably has "incentivize", "de-plane", and the wrong definition of "momentarily" in it!