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I was working at a telecommunications startup in 1999. They were founded in 1997. A big part of what I was doing was fixing Y2K bugs. That said, none of the bu
by dhosek 7y ago
I was working at a telecommunications startup in 1999. They were founded in 1997. A big part of what I was doing was fixing Y2K bugs.
That said, none of the bugs would have been critical to the operations of the services. Everything was in the billing systems and I think if unfixed it would have been more of a reputation hit than anything.
Also, "begs the question" doesn't mean what you think it means. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question
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- rriepe 7y agoPersonally, I've given up on begging the question. It just means "raises" now. The descriptivists always win in the end.
- JdeBP 7y agoLook at it another way: a centuries-old mistranslation is finally being fixed. (-:
- chungus_khan 7y agoThe descriptivists don't even win, they just accept reality. Language is not constructed by individual humans or small groups, but socially over entire societies. Fighting this makes prescriptivists look like grumpy armchair academics and still doesn't stop me from saying "le weekend".
- Wowfunhappy 7y agoFrom the second paragraph of the Wikipedia article you linked: > In modern vernacular usage, however, begging the question is often used to mean "raising the question" or "suggesting the question".
- TomMckenny 7y agoDon't even get me started on "epicenter"
- JdeBP 7y agoYou should stop reading this discussion here, for your own peace of mind. Because there's someone writing quotation marks and then immediately writing "quote-unquote" only a few bullet points ahead. (-:
- vidanay 7y agoThat's the word for when a WWE star enters the stadium with loud music and fireworks, right?
- mark-r 7y agoI only noticed one manifestation of the Y2K bug myself. I had a credit card receipt that had a date of 1/2/100. Definitely not critical.
- reaperducer 7y agoDefinitely not critical. To you. But to the store that didn't get any money for thousands of sales and potentially went out of business, definitely critical.
- msla 7y ago"Begging the question" comes from a centuries-old mistranslation which somehow became a shibboleth. I could probably come up with a dumber way for a phrase to become fixed as "proper usage" but it would take me a while.