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Amusingly, "optimized" originally means "made best". https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/optimus#Latin https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/optimus#Latin (But I guess "b

• sedatk 5y ago
  On a parallel note, "optimized" translates to "made best" in Turkish.
  • schoen 5y ago
    There are lots of these with many modern languages, where someone who was familiar with both a foreign language (often a classical or scholarly language) and a local language consciously adapted the vocabulary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calque https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calque It's always fun and satisfying for me to happen upon these. :-)
• obfuscationeso 5y ago
  Hi! I know this is completely unrelated, but hackernews has no PM functions, so I'm posting this here. Schoen, you posted a comment on here a couple of years ago looking for an English translation to a book on obfuscated programming. I could not find much info online about getting an English copy and I also really wanted to read it, so I threw a copy into google translate, and its surprisingly readable. Since you are one of the only people I could find online also looking for an English copy, I just wanted to make you aware of its existence. If you don't care about this at all, sorry for bothering you. If you do care, here is a link: https://obfuscationandesotaric.neocities.org/ https://obfuscationandesotaric.neocities.org/ Have a great day!
  • schoen 5y ago
    Thank you very much; I'm still very curious about that book! I will definitely read this.