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In other news, words can mean more than one thing.
by fizx 10y ago
In other news, words can mean more than one thing.
- Rooster61 10y agoTrue, but that doesn't mean you can use words that fundamentally change the meaning of the sentence and then pass it off as the same thing.
- sowbug 10y agoI could care less.
- spdustin 10y agoCouldn't?
- kbenson 10y agoAt the risk of being too pedantic, that's the point. The incorrect phrasing is often used to mean the original thing, when the incorrect phrasing fundamentally changes the actual meaning of the sentence. That said, this is a chain of comments that skirts dangerously close to not-contributing IMO, since I'm not sure making cryptic comments that lead readers that don't happen to reach the right context sensitive interpretation to produce more comments asking about it aren't actually worse than a pure non sequitur, from a discussion point of view. Having a clever counter-example (as the GP does) is good. Leaving it unexplained and ambiguous is not.
- ZoF 10y agoClever.
- booleandilemma 10y agoFor all intensive purposes
- fitchjo 10y agoI (hopefully) see what you did there :)
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- wybiral 10y agoUntil someone reads them and their meanings collapse. :)
- asimuvPR 10y agoAt least we have a link that point to where this comment is at any time. ;-)
- marcosdumay 10y agoWe just don't have any idea where the thread is going...
- asimuvPR 10y agoWe do have the HN god particle: dang. He can alter its trajectory to point towards the trash can. :)