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This was pointed out humorously by Douglas Adams: > "..am I alone in finding the expression 'it turns out' to be incredibly useful? It allows you to make swift
by gwd 7mo ago
This was pointed out humorously by Douglas Adams:
> "..am I alone in finding the expression 'it turns out' to be incredibly useful? It allows you to make swift, succinct, and authoritative connections between otherwise randomly unconnected statements without the trouble of explaining what your source or authority actually is. It's great. It's hugely better than its predecessors 'I read somewhere that...' or the craven 'they say that...' because it suggests not only that whatever flimsy bit of urban mythology you are passing on is actually based on brand new, ground breaking research, but that it's research in which you yourself were intimately involved. But again, with no actual authority anywhere in sight."
- turnsout 7mo agoTurns out I was onto something
- DetroitThrow 7mo ago"It Turns Out" (2010) user?id=turnsout (2020)
- bryanrasmussen 7mo agoId Turns Out? There's 16 numbers from d to t, counting t. 2010 + 16. OMG Turns out they were on to something!
- rmellow 7mo agoI think y'all are on something.
- thom 7mo agoWhen I saw this title on HN, I immediately thought it was going to be about The Salmon of Doubt.
- SunshineTheCat 7mo agoIt kinda reminds me of replying to a statement with "So...it's come to this..." My friends and I use to do this all the time for no particular reason except to turn an otherwise ordinary conversation into challenge that can only be resolved by mortal combat. Of course, we did it jokingly with each other. But when someone we didn't know heard us do this they were genuinely confused with what we were so offended by, which was half the fun.
- nine_k 7mo agoIt turns out, assesses the epistemic landscape, and turns back in.