Subject: Re: "reticulate"
From: Cecilia Baader (ceciliaann@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri May 19 2000 - 22:49:41 GMT
>"Tim O'Connor" <oconnort@nyu.edu> wrote:
>[although Bruce wrote first:]
> > Consulting Webster's doesn't _really_ seem to bring it home.
>
>The OED points reticulate (as an adjective) to "reticulated" -- which
>means (seriously no pun intended in today's Internet world):
>
> Constructed or arranged like a net; made or marked
> so as to resemble a net or a network.
I love it when you talk dictionary to me...
Seriously, that was fascinating and I thank you, Bruce, for bringing it up,
you, Tim, for furnishing the OED slant on things, and Scottie for, well,
being Scottie.
Regards,
Cecilia.
(Who is surviving despite a day of the most extraordinarily bad luck, partly
due to the utter grandness of certain good friends...)
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