From: eliddell@no.patience.for.spam   
      
   On Fri, 12 Dec 2014 19:11:11 -0500, Brian M. Scott wrote:   
      
   > On Fri, 12 Dec 2014 17:26:19 -0500, Michelle Bottorff   
   >  wrote in   
   >  in   
   > rec.arts.sf.composition:   
   >   
   >> Will in New Haven  wrote:   
   >   
   >>>> I have no reason to believe that it's being used here to mean 'etch'.   
   >>>>  'Reticulated' describes (in general terms) the nature of the   
   >>>> etching, not the fact of it.  Of course it's entirely possible that   
   >>>> the term was being misused, but your sample sentence lacks sufficient   
   >>>> context for us to determine whether that's the case.   
   >   
   >>> The first time I encountered reticulated was when I read about the   
   >>> reticulated python.   
   >   
   >> Me too.   
   >   
   > Makes three of us.   
   >   
   > [...]   
      
   I think I first encountered it (or close enough) as "Reticulating   
   splines" in an old version of SimCity.  I guess my reading materials   
   don't encompass enough snakes--not a deficiency I'm sure I want to   
   rectify . . .   
      
   E. Liddell   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)