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Every time “Magic: The Gathering” is mentioned it seriously throws off my phrase parsing for like half a minute. What about “the magic”? What is “the gathering
by mynegation 6y ago
Every time “Magic: The Gathering” is mentioned it seriously throws off my phrase parsing for like half a minute. What about “the magic”? What is “the gathering color wheel”? I wish “Magic: The Gathering” was in quotes.
- herval 6y agoSame for news involving Yahoo!!
- hkmurakami 6y agoYahoo!! Japan called.
- zentiggr 6y agoMy coder's eye has always read their name as "Yahoo not not ..."
- niklasd 6y agoOne of the best law schools in India is called "National Law School of India University". I had a great time there as an exchange student, but boy, there is some heavy parsing involved in that name.
- newswasboring 6y agoThis is what happens when you want to adhere to all local, national and international standards. A National XX is a protected term in education (well sort of) and the use of that term signifies that the government is involved to make this place good. School is there because its modeled after Harvard Law School (not really sure why that one is special in its structure). University is another more protected term. You cannot call an institute a university without ministry of human development's approval. What is weird is because I know all this the name doesn't really sound that weird. They are just expressing a lot of things in the name which is normal to me.
- igravious 6y agoOT: A number of the (what I have been calling) universities in my country have the seemingly bizarrely redundant labelling "University College X" where X is the locale each is based in. Your comment made me look up why. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_college https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_college It appears that, “In a number of countries, a university college is a college institution that provides tertiary education but does not have full or independent university status. A university college is often part of a larger university. The precise usage varies from country to country.” So now I realise that there is but one actual university in my country, that being the national university, and all the self-styled "universities" around the country are mere colleges. Notions!
- smichel17 6y agoThe actual article title has them, presumably omitted on HN for length.
- praptak 6y ago"Magic: The Gathering" is the SQL injection string for human parsers.
- aasasd 6y agoBy now I'm pretty sure that English-speakers are gradually forgetting what punctuation is. Quotes and commas are already basically dead—instead, we receive titlecase and italics, and convoluted stream-of-words sentences.
- sarabande 6y agoJust be thankful in English there are spaces. Chinese doesn't have even that!
- praptak 6y agoWould it be useful in Chinese? I thought each character is basically a word. Or is that only sometimes true?
- afiori 6y agoAs once it was explained to me, most ideograms can be used as an independent word, but most words are 2 or 3 ideograms long. If I remember correctly an example was faucet=water+dragon
- 7C34B74B 6y agoSpaces would be useful when reading Chinese. Words are composed of (usually) 1-3 characters. Each character has a particular meaning. Word have their own meaning, independant of the meaning of the characters used. Often the meaning of the characters in a word kinda implies the meaning of the word, but that's not reliable at all. Sometimes the characters in a word are used just for their sound.
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