UC Berkeley profs lambast new “black box” network monitoring hardware

Re:UC Berkeley profs lambast new “black box” network monitor... by simonebrunozzi on Sunday February 07, 2016 @10:16PM (#11056188)

I don't know if it's of any interest, but the title is unclear to me (Italian, self-proclaimed almost perfect English, working for US companies for 8 years, in the US since 4, previously in Singapore for 2.5 years).

I didn't know what "profs lambast" meant, until I googled it:

Lambast = criticize someone harshly

profs = it means UC Berkeley "profs", or professors.

(I erroneously thought that "UC Berkeley" was subject, "profs" verb, and lambast an adjective).

Strange that despite all these years, sometimes you stumble on some unknown English terms that you have to look up.

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Re:UC Berkeley profs lambast new “black box” network monitor... by themartorana on Sunday February 07, 2016 @10:32PM (#11056214)

Man, I'm 37, have lived in the US for 37 years plus 9 months if you believe life starts at conception, and have a better command of the English language than many if not most, and I constantly have to look things up! I don't know if it means I'm actually not in any better command of the language than most 5th graders, or the things I read are written at a high level, or I just read enough to stumble upon new words, idioms, and phrases constantly, but whichever it is, I feel you :)

Of course when English has over 1,000,000 recognized words, who can be expected to know all of them?

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