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The downvotes you seem to be getting only confirms that HN average commenter have a very poor sense of humour and take themselves too much seriously.
by elzbardico 2y ago
The downvotes you seem to be getting only confirms that HN average commenter have a very poor sense of humour and take themselves too much seriously.
- krapp 2y agoHumor is for the dregs on Reddit. Hacker News is serious business.
- elzbardico 2y agoVery well done!
- mdp2021 2y ago"Why are all these people here at the brothel fornicating, what are they thinking. I'll start a lecture"
- mdp2021 2y agoIf we let jokes go unleashed we would drown in jokes in these pages. You confuse "taking oneself seriously" and "taking the opportunity (of being here) responsibly". ...You seem to be confusing "restraint" with something else.
- elzbardico 2y agoI see, the old slippery slope.
- mdp2021 2y agoNo, not just that - but also that: the slope can be slippery, irregardless of its misuse in some arguments. The pivots here are «intellectual curiosity» and «a good... comment teaches us something». Of course some of us believe also those mandates should be taken with flexibility and common sense - but one should not forget them and the more general spirit behind them when posting. A rubberband should bind to them - if it's not there, there's probably a misunderstanding of the opportunity given.
- knodi123 2y ago> irregardless of its misuse <<eye twitch>> You're doing that on purpose.
- mdp2021 2y ago> You're doing that on purpose Sorry, I don't get what you mean. Some denounce the "slippery slope" arguments as a fallacy in arguments - but denouncing a slope is only sometimes a fallacy, not always (it is a weak correlation). In case elzbardico intended to imply that the original proposal was a fallacy, he was replied the relevant slope is real. "If we unleash without restraint here, the place will fill with noise". Reasonable restraint makes this place a better place for its purpose.
- defrost 2y agoVery likely referring to the "misuse" that made their brain hiccup: Irregardless is a word sometimes used in place of regardless or irrespective which has caused controversy since the early twentieth century, though the word appeared in print as early as 1795. ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irregardless https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irregardless The usage dispute over irregardless was such that in 1923 Literary Digest published an article titled "Is There Such a Word as Irregardless in the English Language?" The OED goes on to explain the word is primarily a North American colloquialism. It's up there with "I could care less" on the list of silly things that non native English speakers (ie. Americans) say that upset native (ie. English) English speakers. To be fair, there's more variations of English in the UK than in the whole of North America so it's a quaint bit of Queen's English snobbery from the Oxbridge and wannabe's set.
- mdp2021 2y agoThank you! I never researched that specific word, and I thought it was a merge of 'irregard' and 'regardless' (at the semantic level of construction) which happened as the 'ir-' got used as an intensive prothesis (at the euphonic level), overriding its original negative sense. It seems like a case in which the prothesis is an effective intensifier, but compromised in the final logical flow of the word.