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From: elna@netcom.com (Esperanto League N America)
Subject: lossy 
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dcmsin@hk.super.net (Desmond Sin) writes in a recent posting (reference <AF46264896681BF40F@max1-33.hk.super.net>):
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>English is not my mother tongue either but I don't see anything wrong with
>the word "lossy". For example, in talking about compression schemes, the
>word "lossy" is used to denote a scheme which tosses out unnecessary data.
>
As I wrote in another post (which my server might have lost) I humbly
bow before Mr Lee's *correct* usage of this technical term, which I had
never encountered, and mistakenly read as a clever pun on "lousy".

>


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