On 4 May 2013 18:18, Chris Muller <ma.chris.m at gmail.com> wrote:
> Your average syllables-per-word jumped in this mail Colin!  ;)

*cough* http://www.lshift.net/blog/2013/04/27/how-readable-are-your-comments

>  I had
> to look up "cromulent".  Dictionary.com defines it as, "fine,
> acceptable".  Why not just say "fine" then?  Ah, urban Dictionary's
> definition says:  "Used in an ironical sense to mean legitimate, and
> therefore, in reality, spurious and not at all legitimate. Assumes
> common knowledge of the inherent Simpsons reference."
>
> Since we already have DateAndTime "now", I think "fromNow" is the most
> explicit, literal, and unambiguous term possible.  It was in the
> thesaurus and is used in modern language today, making it perfectly
> valid.
>
> One more thing to consider would be to honor the original author's
> ("wiz" -- who is that?) and file-in his actual methods so they'll have
> his 2009 timestamp on them.  That's just the archivist inside me
> talking.

Jerome Peace.

> However, as my vocabulary is most definitely deficient, I will defer
> to the academic linguists here.  Feel free to change it to #hence if
> you prefer that.

Hence (sic) my suggestion of having both, so that both the Right and
Wrong people may win!

frank

> On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 2:34 AM, Colin Putney <colin at wiresong.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> "hence" is equally meaningful as "fromNow", but more old-world
>>> sounding.  I think "ago" and "fromNow" are more compatible with each
>>> other in terms of modern language use.
>>
>>
>> No!
>>
>> "Hence" is the proper the proper and perfectly cromulent antonym for "ago."
>> The fact that many people use circumlocutions to compensate for a deficient
>> vocabulary does not mitigate this truth.
>>
>> Colin
>