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> orthogonal Do, by chance, mean to say irrelevant, tangential, or independent? Orthogonal is a $10 word and really does not help in contributing to understand
by stagbeetle 10y ago
> orthogonal
Do, by chance, mean to say irrelevant, tangential, or independent? Orthogonal is a $10 word and really does not help in contributing to understanding during a discussion.
- thisrod 10y agoSomeone should teach this immigrant the language already. :-) http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/O/orthogonal.html http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/O/orthogonal.html
- stagbeetle 10y agoI've been found out. Integrating into the Holy Hacker News Kingdom has been tough, especially since a thesaurus acts as a translation dictionary. Cheers on the jargon repository, though.
- aangjie 10y agoI'm with the immigrant.. :-) Independent is more used and likely to make it easier to read. No comments on possibility of mis-interpretations. -- Disclaimer: I'm a non-native speaker.