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Have any of you ever used the word "mutable" in normal discussion? Or ever at all?
What about "obsfuscate"? Ever use that word?

edit: By normal conversation I do not mean in programming language :p
 
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Ice Tea said:
I was just pasting them up incase anybody asked what they ment :)
I think most people here will not be familiar with them which is not an issue, they are obscure words imho.
What I would like to do is establish just how obscure they are.
 
VIRII said:
Have any of you ever used the word "mutable" in normal discussion? Or ever at all?
What about "obsfuscate"? Ever use that word?

<pedantic>obfuscate</pedantic>? I can unequivocally say that I do :p

I used to love baffling my old boss with words like quixotic, refulgent, and some other oddities :D
 
I knew what the words meant but wouldn't use them in normal conversation.

There are many words that I have in my vocabulary that I don't use very often because I believe that the vast majority of the people that I speak to on a day to day basis would not understand wtf I was talking about and would think that I was trying to be a smart arse.

By way of explanation; I am a cryptic crossword fan. :)
 
I've used obfuscate(d) quite a few times in the context of coding.
Not sure whether mutable has ever cropped up though.

EDIT. Should say that I've used immutable a fair bit though
 
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I've used them both before, without pretension, but working in IT I probably have more of a need to use them than most.
 
Solari said:
<pedantic>obfuscate</pedantic>? I can unequivocally say that I do :p

I used to love baffling my old boss with words like quixotic, refulgent, and some other oddities :D
Gah he got me making a typo and I genuinely tend to check for them in my posts as well. :(

Refulgent .... that is a cracking word. Although you admit to using the words not to communicate but to confuse.
 
Augmented said:
Are you trying to weed out the programmers on the forum?
LOL. No. I'm not a programmer nor did I know they were commonly used in programming to be honest.

I just felt that this post was pointless posturing and a weak attempt at validating a poor argument by use of uncommon words:

Kermit said:
If intelligence is mutable, it's ipso facto able to be changed: whether autodidactically or by teaching on the part of another, either way it's teaching.

Pretentious pap imho.
 
That post makes perfect sense, concisely conveys a point, if it sent you scurrying for a dictionary that's not his fault ;)

To me it simply shows that perhaps the poster has a background in the subject, where such terms are probably more common than in 'normal' discussion.
 
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