Comment Re:Quandary? (Score 2, Informative) 166
Maybe I'm missing some sublety of the Queen's English, but I thought the fourth in a series is the QUATERNARY and the fifth is the QUINARY.
Please enlighten me if I'm missing the joke or something. They do identify the previous phase as the TERTIARY.
You're missing the joke. A quandary is a "state of uncertainty or perplexity", and something that is quintessential "[represents] the perfect example of a class or quality." They're puns, in other words (ahaha).
Please enlighten me if I'm missing the joke or something. They do identify the previous phase as the TERTIARY.
You're missing the joke. A quandary is a "state of uncertainty or perplexity", and something that is quintessential "[represents] the perfect example of a class or quality." They're puns, in other words (ahaha).
