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Ooh, just like Americans then.

 

In the Labour and TU movement we're fairly immune to this sort of
bollocks.

 

heh. We have a "Product Engineering" department.

This is two blokes in Marketing who dream up new ways of solutionizing
the disconnect between customer zeitgeist s/n perceptionalization and
the actuality of front office performantized delivery[1]

[1] i.e. they churn out some PDFs now and again[2]
[2] I think this is what Antony E does in our twee little Kalifornian
division.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, darsy

A mercy killing is entirely reasonable IMHO. Go for it.

 

The French love America and want to be Americans, but they'll never, ever
admit it.

 

That's actually my bug-bear with them. It's not that phrases
themselves that piss me off. It's people who use them without
actually knowing what they mean but use them because others are.

And that whenever people hear them, they generally pretend
undertanding.

 

You might want to try listening to some live jazz if you think 'Kind of
Blue'
is flawlessly recorded. All that valve distortion might be pleasing to
the ear
but it isn't the real thing.

 

Mercy? **** off. Cruel and unusual would be my recommendation.

 

If it's good enough for Shakespeare it should be good enough for you.

 

No court in the land would convict!

 

difficult, even on an IP Starphone.

 

You are using it wrongly: `delta X' is the change in X.

 

Delta is difference or change. The word you're looking for is overlap or
intersection, I'd have thought.

I use delta a lot when talking about storage snapshots and replication,
such as the delta between one night's incremental backup and the next.

 

you're nearly there.

"delta" means "degree of change" or simply "difference". It's a maths
term, really, but OK to use business usages would include:

"Given the requirement changes, what's the anticipated delta in the
delivery date".

"The delta between forecast and actuals is unacceptable - this will
require us to deliver someone's bollocks on a silver platter".

 

What? <listens> You are quite right. My memory has been lying to me.

Ray & Milt don't sound as good as I remember them, either :-(

 

And in both of your examples, "change" would suffice. Why bring in a
term that not everyone[1] understands properly?[2]

[1] Bear being a case in point.
[2] Going back to Bear's original bug-...err...bear.

 

Change is a bit abstract. Delta implies quantification of change.

 

In communiqué

And there was simple me thinking it must be analogous to the original
Herodotus coinage. What's wrong with 'spread'?



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Might what?


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