From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Mar 26 2001 - 04:24:01 CST
In <Pine.LNX.4.10.10103231744270.32741-100000@spock.peak.org> John Stanley <stanley@peak.org> writes:
>>OK, I have changed it, though I think it weakens the meaning ("perverse"
>>definitely implies a lack of Clue in the perpetrator).
>It implies no such thing. Nothing in the definition of perverse I find in
>my desktop dictionary says anything about not knowing what one is doing.
No, but you will find that it says a lot about doing things that are
illogical, inappropriate, stupid, etc.
Anyway, the word is gone now.
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