[Ads-l] minucious

James Eric Lawson jel at NVENTURE.COM
Sat Apr 10 04:41:19 UTC 2021


It looks like a more-or-less phonetic misspelling of 'minutious':

"Characterized by attention to very small details; concerned with or
attentive to minutiae." OED 3rd.

On 4/9/21 6:36 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
> “meticulous" x “minutiae”?
> 
>> On Apr 9, 2021, at 9:33 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>> 2004 Amazon.com reviewer of Costa-Gavras's _Amen_:Costa Gavras has always
>> been a very minucious director and hardly makes a bad film.
>>
>> 'Meticulous'?
>>
>> JL
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