'Out Of Gas'
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Yes, it is true, Sophia. They also change all uses of "eval" to "review", so that "evaluate" becomes "reviewuate".
Has to do with Java commands, or so they explained to me. I think it's crap -- nobody else does it, and it only happens, IIRC, when something goes through YG into a Yahoo mailbox.
I'm sure a more technical person has a better explanation. But it caused much entertainment when friends of mine kept talking about going to the Medireview Fair. Sigh.
X-post-amundo with Dana.
It's a thing in their programming, and yes, under certain circumstances I can't clearly define, about 70% of the time the word "expression" is rendered as "statement" and "-eval-" (any permutation of the word fragment, including "medieval") becomes "-review-". Very annoying.
It can be gotten around by messing with spelling. Personally, I do ex-pression and mediev-al, but others do e.xpression and e!xpression and things like that.
Why do they do it? Because they are dumbasses and are trying to make sure people can't insert code accidentally into emails, so they change 'hot' words that might be code, but they're stupidly indiscriminate.
Thank you. I was beginning to feel crazy.I am actually reading something on a regular web-site that has statement where expression should be (The statement on his face...). I am guessing it was cut and pasted from a yahoogroups message or something.
So it's supposedly been fixed? Hmm.
I just sent an email out to test this.
And yes! It's true. "Medieval" came back correctly.
I was only able to duplicate the problem if I sent mail through a Yahoo group. Simple me-to-me Yahoo mail didn't get bitten.
Anyone remember that Tyr/Harper story? The really good, long one? Um. Lots of Nietzchean/Hum sex? And Nietzchean backstory.
Kit Mason, "The Recreation of the Warrior." It's up under Miscellaneous at PolyRecs.