Mutable

VIRII · 31 Jan 2007 at 09:18

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

Ice Tea · 31 Jan 2007 at 09:29

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/mutable

VIRII · 31 Jan 2007 at 09:30

Ice Tea said:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/mutable

Heh I know what it means

I asked if it was a word that anyone used.

Ice Tea · 31 Jan 2007 at 09:30

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=obfuscate

Ice Tea · 31 Jan 2007 at 09:31

I was just pasting them up incase anybody asked what they ment

Phate · 31 Jan 2007 at 09:32

No and No.

What do they mean?

VIRII · 31 Jan 2007 at 09:32

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 · 31 Jan 2007 at 09:33

Phate said:
No and No.

What do they mean?

mutable = changeable
obsfuscate = confuse

Akira · 31 Jan 2007 at 09:34

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?

Indubitably.

VIRII · 31 Jan 2007 at 09:37

Akira said:
Indubitably.

Indubitably yes or Indubitably no?

Solari · 31 Jan 2007 at 09:44

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

I used to love baffling my old boss with words like quixotic, refulgent, and some other oddities

platypus · 31 Jan 2007 at 09:44

Yeah I use them from time to time. Why?

Augmented · 31 Jan 2007 at 09:51

Are you trying to weed out the programmers on the forum?

singist · 31 Jan 2007 at 09:53

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.

Haircut · 31 Jan 2007 at 09:57

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

bam0 · 31 Jan 2007 at 09:58

I've used them both before, without pretension, but working in IT I probably have more of a need to use them than most.

Garrett · 31 Jan 2007 at 10:04

I've only used it when referring to data types in .Net

VIRII · 31 Jan 2007 at 10:18

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

I used to love baffling my old boss with words like quixotic, refulgent, and some other oddities

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.

VIRII · 31 Jan 2007 at 10:21

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.

Rich_L · 31 Jan 2007 at 10:22

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.