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This reminds me of that Lewis black bit, "If it weren't for my horse, I never would have spent that year in college". I saw the words, but my brain couldn't pr
by bryan_w 7y ago
This reminds me of that Lewis black bit, "If it weren't for my horse, I never would have spent that year in college".
I saw the words, but my brain couldn't process them, no matter how many times I tried.
If I die of an aneurysm, regex2fat will probably be the reason why
- TeMPOraL 7y agoI don't understand, what's the deal with that Lewis sentence? It seems pretty straightforward to parse. I read it as: if(!somethingAboutMyHorse) { // ? Road not taken. } else { //Spend a year in college. }
- nathancahill 7y agoThe horse raced past the barn fell.
- ssalazar 7y agoNever heard this before but despite being grammatically sound, I guess the events that would lead to someone truthfully saying it are meant to defy reason.
- Dylan16807 7y agoThere's a hundred things a pet can do that might cause inspire you to change your decision about college. I don't understand how it defies reason or is even confusing.
- projektfu 7y agoWithout being able to process the words in some way, put them into context, it can cause an aneurism to rupture in his brain.
- Ericson2314 7y agoThe were not and never cancel out, so remove the negation. The subjective asserts the horse thing was necessary, not merely sufficient, so be sure there is no college in the other branch. Also throw on some asserts as the non-horse non-college possible world is not the real one. In other words, imperative pseudo-code is a poor substitute for some temporal and possible-world modal logic.
- nl 7y agoYeah I didn't get it either. There's an explanation on Reddit[1] which basically says that there's no logical explanation for why having a horse should have led to a year in college. I was looking for some kind of grammatical trick, and judging by some of the replies here I'm not alone. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/1twwao/why_is_if_it_wasnt_for_my_horse_i_wouldnt_have/cecijq2/ https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/1twwao/why_is...
- bryanrasmussen 7y agoI think he made a mistake, it should have been "if it weren't for my horse I would have spent more than that year in college." English can be tricky that way.
- m463 7y agoI have to say that made me think of this really old game called Leisure Suit Larry. In one scene, he is sitting in a bar and an NPC sits next to him on a barstool and the dialog just spits out punchlines with no context. "...and there stood the pig and the cow!"