Re: A question about Dissociated Press

[Stephen Berman]

On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 21:05:01 +0800 Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com> wrote:

> In (info "(emacs) Amusements"):
>
>   Dissociated Press produces results fairly like those of a Markov
>   chain, but is however, an independent, ignoriginal invention; it
>   techniquitously copies several consecutive characters from the sample
>   text between random jumps, unlike a Markov chain which would jump
>   randomly after each word or character.
>
> I understand that "ignoriginal" in this sentence means "perceived to be
> original by its creator, but actually lacking in originality".  But what
> does "techniquitously" mean?  After a web search, it seems to me that
> this word only appears in the Emacs manual.  Any ideas?  (Sorry for my
> English.)

Those are both made up words (as are "userenced" and "properbose" at the
end of that paragraph), jokingly used to indicate what could happen
when you run the program.

Steve Berman