Excessively arbitrary comparisons
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To start with,
Grelple
Or
Blellow
?
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@Gribnit One thing which I do not recognise is slightly less polychromatic than the other thing I do not recognise.
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@Arantor well, which one do you want?
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@Gribnit The one that smells cyan.
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@PleegWat Is that the one that tastes almondide?
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@Arantor This is probably going to vary by linguistic root convolved stepwise with educational background with the solar angle as an external factor.
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@PleegWat said in Excessively arbitrary comparisons:
@Gribnit The one that smells cyan.
Considered harmful
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A little easier:
A Short Phrase
Or
A Short Phrase
?
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@Gribnit I prefer a short phrase.
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@Arantor well, which one do you want?
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@Gribnit yes.
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@Arantor I'm afraid that's incorrect.
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@Gribnit said in Excessively arbitrary comparisons:
@Arantor I'm afraid that's incorrect.
That's no reason to be afraid.
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@Gribnit how can it be incorrect? You gave me two options, I indicated positively.
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@Arantor It may indeed seem a bit arbitrary.
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@Gribnit it’s a good deal more arbitrary than that but my answer remains obstinately unchanged.
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Fair. We'll accept it as an accepted response, without prejudice based on its incorrectness. There is some concern that it may be a perfectly arbitrary response, which is not in fact excessive, and thus would be insufficient. If you could supply some irrationale it would help to clear this up.
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@Gribnit That's the rub, though, my resolute answer was irrationally arrived at, and yet when I review it critically after the fact, I find no rational reason to change it in any particular direction.
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@Arantor thanks! That'll do fine.
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Bit of a tricky one:
Or
?
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@Gribnit I choose from those two choices.
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Refuse
Or
Reject
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@Gribnit no, neither of these.
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@Arantor said in Excessively arbitrary comparisons:
@Gribnit no, neither of these.
I suspect this rather not to be the case, but if it is, what have you done? Also, the same question without italics.
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@Gribnit I refused and rejected the options.
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@Arantor evaluating "both" and "neither" as equivalent seems an underarbitration. I'm going to allow this, in any case.
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@Gribnit very kind of you.
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Possibly returning to a prior theme,
Scabrine
Or
Malbeige
?
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@Gribnit Since I don't know either of those things, I put them into Google and compared them based on Google's recommendations.
I choose White Mamba over a shitty esoteric computing language.
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@Arantor that's... excessively arbitrary. Well done.
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A problem arises. What with the nervous system being ape-derived and all, yesterday's excess is today's commonplace, and in a world where we can order the literal food of kings and generals for delivery, and where @Arantor has already used Google Translate as an intermediate oracle for arbitration, the bar has therefore been arbitrarily raised.
Thankfully, this is not a "me" problem.
ed. you should have left the tense error, it was unintentionally evocative
Are you trying to proposition me, Ed?
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@Gribnit said in Excessively arbitrary comparisons:
already used Google Translate as an intermediate oracle for arbitration
I did not.
I put them into the main search and relied upon the 'did you mean' results. Scabrine was corrected to Scalabrine, a player in some sport that got nicknamed as White Mamba, and as you inferred, Malbeige was corrected to Malbolge.
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@Arantor It seems to me rather a fine point if any that differentiates such usage from a classic oracle, so fair enough.
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Tambrid
OR
Barmtid
?
