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Re: new Mindstorms servos?
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lugnet.robotics
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Sat, 21 Jan 2006 19:39:32 GMT
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dan miller <danbmil99@yahoo.com*saynotospam*>
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--- Joshua Delahunty <dulcaoin@cse.ucsc.edu> wrote:
> Actually a word-by-word translation would be, "The best is not too good" -
> in
> which "not too good" parses nicely into the idiom of a Jutlandish
> understatement, making the between-the-lines statement be, "Actually, we'd
> prefer to deliver rather better than the best". Henning Makholm
> (hem@math.ku.dk)
How about: "The best is just a starting point." That seems to express the
idea in English.
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 | | Re: new Mindstorms servos?
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| (...) From the rec.toys.lego Frequently Asked Questions: The LEGO motto: Det bedste er ikke for godt. (Only the best is good enough.) Actually a word-by-word translation would be, "The best is not too good" - in which "not too good" parses nicely (...) (19 years ago, 21-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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