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Google says... (Score:2)

by ajt (2546)

pedesagittry? [slashdot.org]
Re:Pedesagittry (Score:1) by rubmytummy (677080) on Thursday March 15, @06:57PM (#18369073)

Damian Conway made it up to describe certain unintended side effects of (mis)using $_ in Perl.

Here's a hint: in Latin a sagittarius is a kind of archer, and a pedes viator is a traveler on foot.
I have no idea is this is in anyway true...

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  by jmason (3282) on 2007.04.11 6:18 (#54326) Homepage
  
  so "shooting oneself in the foot"? great neoarchaeologism. ;)
  
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    by Aristotle (5147)
    
    Ah, that would work. (I didn’t see your reply while composing mine.) I knew it was a Damianism.
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      by rafael (2125)
      
      Awesome: in the French edition of PBP, this amusing neologism was translated (by Jean Forget) as "fusillade auto-podale".

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