Dragaera

Ubiquitous

Thu Feb 17 11:36:49 PST 2005

On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 02:30:05PM -0500, Steve Simmons wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 10:50:32AM -0800, Shawn Burns wrote:
> 
> > Shawn (commenting on how easy communication is in English even if used
> > poorly): "What is a 'ubiquitous' mean?"
> > 
> > Def #1: "Nifty" (this may have been a joke)
> > Def #2: "Easily Corruptible"
> > Def #3: "Widespread"
> > Def #4: "It means that everybody knows what the words mean"
>
> Or it could be that all four responses were jokes.  Only #3 and #4 come
> even vaguely close to what it actually means, and I'm pretty sure #4 was
> a joke.

As the author of #2, I can tell you _it_ was certainly a joke.  :)

-Jot
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