ThisIs exactly the kind of moronic nonsense that turns online forums and meeting sites such as Facebook and Myspace into sub-standard clutter. Far too many people use the word 'random' out of context. 'Random' means, and I quote from dictionary.com:
–adjective
1. proceeding, made, or occurring without definite aim, reason, or pattern: the random selection of numbers.
2. Statistics. of or characterizing a process of selection in which each item of a set has an equal probability of being chosen.
NOT 'crazy, wild, individually-orientated or idiosyncratic.' Along with endemic, random is possibly the most misused word in the English language.
Sorry for length, but it had to be said.
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–adjective
1. proceeding, made, or occurring without definite aim, reason, or pattern: the random selection of numbers.
2. Statistics. of or characterizing a process of selection in which each item of a set has an equal probability of being chosen.
NOT 'crazy, wild, individually-orientated or idiosyncratic.' Along with endemic, random is possibly the most misused word in the English language.
Sorry for length, but it had to be said.