@Barney Countless crowds and droves of them here. We could organize a firing squad, if we could get all of the troublemakers to line up and stand next to each other side-by-side in a row.
@lisaviolet but "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo" isn't really redundant. It's just a reminder of why computers want us to learn Lojban.
@Collin1000 as I recall, the phrase was originally, "I could care less, but that'd take effort." It's been shortened down and suffered for it. Kinda like "blood (of battle) is thicker than water (of the womb)." At least that one took on the implications of the shortened form.
@lisaviolet "No problem" in response to "Thank You" grrrrrrrrr.... My children will echo "The appropriate response is: 'You are welcome.'."...still cannot get them to use "May I......?"
Nothing wrong with a little redundancy in spoken language. English isn't some formally-defined predicate logic grammar that crashes your brain if there's a minor semantic error. The only people who would really care are robots.
Like, for instance, the evil alien robots from the dark side of the moon that have been quietly infiltrating our society. When their internal recursive descent parser expands the acronyms and attempts to process the doubled word, it triggers an internal assertion failure. Their software assumes a tokenization error and enters a failsafe loop, locking up their systems. I will continue saying "PIN number" and "ATM machine" to disable these silver devils while there's still hope.
@awk I am an evil silver really caring person robot of dark lunar origin, per your description. I've been making humans redundant for all my entire complete existence.
You could try using your VIN number from your vehicle ID, but entering that many digits will require you to adjust your approximate ETA for whatever time you had planned to arrive later, so plan ahead.
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@mfladd
@capguncowboy
Here's the flag.
The truth shall set you free (with a small service charge).
@KDemo
Free me from freedom. It's exhausting to be so tired.
My old PC computer, which is still a DOS system, might just offer a workaround on XP that many ATM machines are still running.
@narfcake
@narfcake By any possible chance, was that old PC computer an IBM machine?
@rockblossom You know it! It does have issues connecting onto a WAN network, though, and is limited by its RAM memory.
@narfcake
Did this knowledge evolve over time?
@f00l It did, but then some folks in EST time started whining about midnight or something.
@pitamuffin Would you explain it for my friend here?
I have an ideal - save your PIN number in PDF format. That usually works for me.
Troublemaker.
@Barney Countless crowds and droves of them here. We could organize a firing squad, if we could get all of the troublemakers to line up and stand next to each other side-by-side in a row.
@rockblossom Yep, lots of troublemakers here. Ain't it wonderful?
@rockblossom If all the troublemakers were lined up, who would be left to shoot them ?
@ceagee I think no one. Or rather, @no1 ... who's always innocent. Right?
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@rockblossom
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Atm= automated teller machine. So atm machine is redundant. Why would you say automated teller machine machine?
@riceatusc
PIN number = Personal Identification Number number.
@riceatusc @lisaviolet: RAS Syndrome
@narfcake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo
@lisaviolet but "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo" isn't really redundant. It's just a reminder of why computers want us to learn Lojban.
@riceatusc And no one mentions that "Irregardless" is not a real word?
@Kirgen I think @trisk pointed that out. Right below this post.
Why do people make a double negative from 'regardless'?
@trisk Same people who say "I could care less."?
@narfcake But sometimes I could care less!
@trisk Irregardlessly, maybe it bothers you more than it should?
You have no idea how much that whole title made me twitch. Well done.
@PurplePawprints I really had a hard time typing it
@PurplePawprints
Benetwitch Cumberquiver!
"I could care less"
@Collin1000 as I recall, the phrase was originally, "I could care less, but that'd take effort." It's been shortened down and suffered for it. Kinda like "blood (of battle) is thicker than water (of the womb)." At least that one took on the implications of the shortened form.
While we're discussing commonly misused words or phrases, I'd like to pin one up.
"Here's my impression of..."
Impersonation and impression aren't the same thing. I know it's so commonly used that it's become acceptable, but it still gets under my skin.
@capguncowboy
I consider it techie comic jargon, and and appropriate to the trade.
@capguncowboy Here's one of my peeve words: "anyways".
Anyways? Seriously?
@lisaviolet
I'm always anyways.
I can't escape.
@lisaviolet "No problem" in response to "Thank You" grrrrrrrrr.... My children will echo "The appropriate response is: 'You are welcome.'."...still cannot get them to use "May I......?"
@mikibell @lisaviolet
I agree with the "No Problem". Although by me, I'm busy thinking "nobody asked if it's a problem. If it was, you probably wouldn't have done it."
@capguncowboy
That is very unique.
@JekiTheRogue
It's incredibly unique.
@JekiTheRogue Unique, one-of-a-kind item! Going fast! Only 50 left in stock, so hurry quick and get that order in.
@rockblossom @JekiTheRogue
@JekiTheRogue I no more unique phrases then that.
It took me way too long to figure this out.
That title got me all disorientated.
Nothing wrong with a little redundancy in spoken language. English isn't some formally-defined predicate logic grammar that crashes your brain if there's a minor semantic error. The only people who would really care are robots.
Like, for instance, the evil alien robots from the dark side of the moon that have been quietly infiltrating our society. When their internal recursive descent parser expands the acronyms and attempts to process the doubled word, it triggers an internal assertion failure. Their software assumes a tokenization error and enters a failsafe loop, locking up their systems. I will continue saying "PIN number" and "ATM machine" to disable these silver devils while there's still hope.
@awk
I am an evil silver really caring person robot of dark lunar origin, per your description. I've been making humans redundant for all my entire complete existence.
Go ahead. Crash my day.
Hah! I could care less.
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.
I... but... just... huh.
Why did I not see this coming?
@simplersimon
You could try using your VIN number from your vehicle ID, but entering that many digits will require you to adjust your approximate ETA for whatever time you had planned to arrive later, so plan ahead.
Couldn't help it...irregardless is a double-negative...
@tmwest87
Let's party!
@f00l @tmwest87
I totally predictably foresaw this thread.
Anyways, no problem.
@f00l
It's a doggy dog world out there.
@darksaber99999
Irregardless.
@darksaber99999 I could care less, irregardless of what you do to convince me with your talking words.
For all intensive purposes, this pointless thread has no point.
@rv617
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@narfcake
PORPOISE!!!!!!!!
@FroodyFrog
My purpoise is not necessarily the same as your intention.