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Did you sum up your experience reading the book? Or did you try to sum up the critique we're discussing here? If it's the latter you failed.
by lolc 8y ago
Did you sum up your experience reading the book? Or did you try to sum up the critique we're discussing here? If it's the latter you failed.
- zirkonit 8y ago"tl;dr" here actually means "Too long; didn't read", as in, GP's result of reading the book, and not the "here is the summary" we usually tend to associate with the abbreviation.
- lettucehead 8y agothanks - that was helpful to know
- muro 8y agoThe book. Apologies, you are right, should have been clearer. I think the other comments at the time were also about the book, not the article.
- honoredb 8y agoSo now we have to consider the specter of someone writing an overly verbose review of something that reduces to "tl;dr". Someone might summarize the review by writing "tl;dr: tl;dr". Or they might express the same thing, but overly verbosely, so someone might summarize their response by writing "tl;dr: tl;dr: tl;dr". In general, if N "tl;dr"s is a valid sentiment, and any valid sentiment can be expressed overly verbosely, then N+1 "tl;dr"s are a valid sentiment, so by induction any positive integer repetition of "tl;dr"s is valid. However, there exists some number L such that L repetitions of "tl;dr" is itself too long to express the necessary point, and someone who didn't read it would want a summary, the most succinct of which would presumably be "tl;dr: tl;dr nested L times". This meta "tl;dr" itself might be expressed overly verbosely, of course...
- muro 8y agoWell done. Shame it's buried under N comments.