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Re: CHAT: browsers

From:Tim May <butsuri@...>
Date:Monday, February 10, 2003, 21:47
Christophe Grandsire wrote at 2003-02-10 21:22:00 (+0100)
 > En réponse à Tristan <kesuari@...>:
 > >
 > > Exactly why your usage of 'largely fit' was wrong.
 > >
 >
 > Why? I didn't get rid of *any* feature. And unless the English
 > language has changed since last time I learned the expression,
 > "largely fitting" means fitting with a lot of free space left,
 > which is quite the case when you put a 360KB programme on a 1.41MB
 > floppy.
 >
I've never heard it used in that sense.  It's a usage with which I'm
completely unfamiliar.  "Largely" most often means "to a considerable,
but incomplete, extent".  To "largely fit" sounds ambiguous, but I'd
probably interpret it as Joseph did.