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All? Even important service announcements or serious notifications? edit: why the downvotes? I'm simply trying to engage in curious discussion. Apologies, I'm

All? Even important service announcements or serious notifications? edit: why the downvotes? I'm simply trying to engage in curious discussion. Apologies, I'm neurodivergent and I can't often discern between humor or not.

SushiHippie 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33768503 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33768503 It is just that dang likes these words and uses them always when he moves comments from one post to another. See: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=hither%20author%3Adang&sort=byPopularity&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=thither%20author%3Adang&sort=byPopularity&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
JadeNB 3y ago
> edit: why the downvotes? I'm simply trying to engage in curious discussion. Apologies, I'm neurodivergent and I can't often discern between humor or not. I appreciate your willingness to ask questions, and your candor about neurodivergence. I wish it were easier to tell the difference on the internet between someone who's trolling and someone who just doesn't get the day's in-joke, and, unfortunately, since trolls are really good at seizing on the benefit of the doubt, it's often expedient to err on the side of harshness. I was making a whimsical remark—not especially a joke, since there was no intended punchline. The words 'hither' and 'thither' used to be more common, but nowadays have more of an archaic flavor, so I found it funny to see them here. (I had not been aware of the context provided by SushiHippie (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36555921 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36555921), so it was only an in-joke by lucky happenstance.)
- Freedom2 3y ago
  Thank you, I appreciate it.

SushiHippie 3y ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33768503 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33768503 It is just that dang likes these words and uses them always when he moves comments from one post to another. See: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=hither%20author%3Adang&sort=byPopularity&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=thither%20author%3Adang&sort=byPopularity&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

JadeNB 3y ago

> edit: why the downvotes? I'm simply trying to engage in curious discussion. Apologies, I'm neurodivergent and I can't often discern between humor or not. I appreciate your willingness to ask questions, and your candor about neurodivergence. I wish it were easier to tell the difference on the internet between someone who's trolling and someone who just doesn't get the day's in-joke, and, unfortunately, since trolls are really good at seizing on the benefit of the doubt, it's often expedient to err on the side of harshness. I was making a whimsical remark—not especially a joke, since there was no intended punchline. The words 'hither' and 'thither' used to be more common, but nowadays have more of an archaic flavor, so I found it funny to see them here. (I had not been aware of the context provided by SushiHippie (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36555921 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36555921), so it was only an in-joke by lucky happenstance.)

Freedom2 3y ago
Thank you, I appreciate it.