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It might not be a mistranslation but if you wanna construct a "haha people are dumb" narrative or drop a "well akschually" it can be construed as one which is s
by dsfyu404ed 4y ago
It might not be a mistranslation but if you wanna construct a "haha people are dumb" narrative or drop a "well akschually" it can be construed as one which is sufficient for that purpose.
The above statement applies to a hell of a lot of things, not just the whole 666 was/wasn't a mistranslation factoid. Comments like the top level one are what platforms incentivize when they "keep score" of discourse like many/most do.
- AdmiralAsshat 4y ago
- xeromal 4y agoThe guy you're replying to isn't the top comment which I believe you're talking about.
- mmcgaha 4y agoI learned something from both posts so I am glad we got the simple answer and the lets-knuth-this-thing answer too.
- cristoperb 4y ago> lets-knuth-this-thing As a related aside, Don Knuth once composed a work for the pipe organ based on the book of Revelation: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/fant.html https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/fant.html