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Re: Am I understanding aria-relevant="removals" correctly?

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From: Robert Fentress
Date: May 29, 2015 7:28AM

Yes, _mallory, I eventually understood what they were getting at. It just
didn't strike me as intuitive initially. Like you said, I'm sure it made
sense in the context they were coming from.

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 2:46 AM, _mallory < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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>
> Actually, the word atom means "not-cuttable". Tomos, to slice, with the
> negating "a" in front of it.
> The word originally meant "the smallest unbreakable single unit", so
> aria-atomic would mean "everything in this aria-atomic box is a single
> unbreakable unit." Yeah, atoms were so named before we discovered
> sub-atomic particles, meaning atoms are now poorly named. But hey,
> starfish aren't fish either :P
>
> _mallory
> > > > >



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