J C Lawrence wrote:
>>It's a bad use of an English word for an almost-contradictory geekish
>>meaning.
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> Actually its a rather standard even almost common definition and use of
> the word digest (to arrange methodically etc).
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It doesn't distribute or arrange them methodically -- it slaps one on
the end of the previous.
Besides, we're talking nouns, not verbs here.
The noun definitions follow this sense:
1 : a summation or condensation of a body of information: as a : a
systematic compilation of legal rules, statutes, or decisions b : a
periodical devoted to condensed versions of previously published articles
...and digests are neither summations nor condensations.
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