I can name all the States!
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Actually, they are two visually similar glyphs, either of which can be used to represent the ʻokina.
And somehow plain old ' isn't.neither is specific to Hawaiian; they just happen to be useful for it
And they're useful for what else?I don't know anything about this issue, so I can't comment on it.
I'm pretty sure someone linked it here not that long ago.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
died of the Plague or whatever you have in Europe these days
They're called Islamic migrants.
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Paddington, your move.
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Well, USA also has some crazy geopolitical divides with your Indian countries, the abroad ones and Puerto Rico and Washington D.C.
For reference:
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@Lorne_Kates said:
died of the Plague or whatever you have in Europe these days
We have iPhones.
You poor, poor souls.
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@dkf said:
@Lorne_Kates said:
died of the Plague or whatever you have in Europe these days
We have iPhones.
You poor, poor souls.
Those poor, unfortunate souA SYSTEM UPDATE IS REQUIRED. TAP HERE TO INSTALL THE LATEST ITUNES
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I think it's meant to (Hawai'i), but it does seem to be optional nowadays
Hawai‘i and Hawaii are in two different languages. Hawai‘i is Hawaiian; Hawaii is English. The grave accent or left single quote is the ‘okina, the last consonant in the Hawaiian alphabet, which represents the phonetic glottal stop.
Both names tend to be used, depending on whether the person prefers to use (or is more familiar with) the name in the native language or in English. However, if we're talking about the official names, the archipelago is the Hawai‘ian islands, the largest island is Hawai‘i, and the state is Hawaii.
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I think we should adopt the British Isles naming scheme and start calling the island "Great Hawai'i".
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Grand Hawai'i?
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Me and a colleague tried to name all the US states the other day. We managed 35.
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Pfft. Amateurs.
There's 37.
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Could only manage 46 off the top of my head. [spoiler]Iowa, Kentucky, Nebraska and Oklahoma all managed to not be quite memorable enough. Bad flyover states![/spoiler]
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDtdQ8bTvRc
EDIT: HOly shit that's low quality. Try this:
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Me and a colleague tried to name all the US states the other day. We managed 35.
You should have used my guide.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
A SYSTEM UPDATE IS REQUIRED. TAP HERE TO INSTALL THE LATEST ITUNES
Oh, you have Apple Music? You won't want all this stuff from your iTunes clogging up your space then, will you?
Oh, you're trying to add music through iTunes? You silly, you have Apple Music, remember? You don't want boring old-fashioned locally stored music, we know what's best for you. In fact, we won't even tell you we're not adding the music. We'll just let you sit there waiting for it to sync
Limited data plan? What's that? A commute where you don't have signal? Why aren't you working in Cupertino? That's where all the cool people work and as a bonus you might understand the seemingly random OSX names. The next version will be called Tim Cook's Arsehole.
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Limited data plan? What's that? A commute where you don't have signal?
WhyTF does iTunes need to talk so much to Apple's services anyway? Whenever I go offline, it seems to make it want to pop up a dialog about being unable to chatter away. Which is just stupid: not only is it something that is probably what I intended in the first place, it's telling me that it is being chatty when it is doing shit that I don't actually want. I can only conclude that it's a piece of software written by a moron who has no idea what “offline” is.
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This reminded me of the days when modems and the like used to "negotiate" a speed that they were both comfortable with. Perhaps it's not so much the quantity of data that either has to send, but the fact that each word has to be sent slowly and clearly so the other end has a chance to understand and comprehend it.
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This reminded me of the days when modems and the like used to "negotiate" a speed that they were both comfortable with. Perhaps it's not so much the quantity of data that either has to send, but the fact that each word has to be sent slowly and clearly so the other end has a chance to understand and comprehend it.
Boy, won't you be a happy camper if you ever read the TCP spec...
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What's the big deal about being able to name all the states, anyway? Any eight-year-old should be able to do it.
Western Australia, South Australia, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania. See? Easy.
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What's the big deal about being able to name all the states, anyway? Any eight-year-old should be able to do it.
Western Australia, South Australia, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania. See? Easy.
You forgot The Outback and Bartertown.
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British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Quebec, Ontario, New Brunswick, King Edward Island, Nova Scotia, Labrador and Newfoundland?
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Solid, Liquid, Gas, and Plasma?
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King Edward Island
Prince Edward Island, but no one really cares about PEI anyways.?
We also have territories! North West Territories, Yukon, Nunavut
For bonus points, without looking at a map, which is further west-- Manitoba or Saskatchewan?
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Plasma, LED, LCD, OLED, and CRT?
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Uh...Baja California, Baja California sur, Jalisco, Chihuahua, Sonora, Oaxaca...
Plus a bunch more...um...wow, Wikipedia says there are 31.
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What's the big deal about being able to name all the states, anyway? Any eight-year-old should be able to do it.
On, Off, FILE_NOT_FOUND?
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Tearing up the carpet!
I wanted to see the %#$@! shock! So I went and found it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtY3M-mwdZY
But it's totally lame. No lightning or X-ray skeleton views or smoke or anything.
Once upon a time, I had a Dilbert screen saver. His static shocks are pretty good, based on these comics. Now that's a static shock! Heck, even Catbert gave a better shock than Peter Griffin.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
We also have territories!
We have territories too, but the topic was specifically about states so I didn't list those.
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[spoiler]Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Idaho, California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Hawaii, Delaware[/spoiler]
Poor [spoiler]Delaware[/spoiler], forgotten again (I always forget that one for some reason).
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@Lorne_Kates said:
We also have territories!
We have territories too, but the topic was specifically about states so I didn't list those.Um, actually, technically, the topic is literally****strong text about naming States, and what you listed are provinces, which aren't per states per se. Ironic, isn't it?
fake real fake edit: INB4 provinces are states for all intensive purposes.
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Poor [spoiler]Delaware[/spoiler], forgotten again (I always forget that one for some reason).
Everyone else does too, so no worries.
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(I always forget that one for some reason).
Well, it's actually an internal System call that may not have been vetted when you were learning.
Delaware: Clears the current Awareness Registers assigned to the current thread. Any uncommitted data may be lost. This function is typically used for data transmission integrity functions, where secure information may be stored temporarily in the primary Awareness Registers as buffered data.
Certain early operating systems did not always parse/filter System calls in specific circumstances (such as long lists), so if you were affected by this bug, it's quite possible that the reference to Delaware was properly stored (along with relevant information, as usual), but when listing the States, the Delaware function was called, prematurely jumping the loop.
TL;DR: @antiquarian was right. Don't worry too much about flaws in the past.
Filed under: CLOSED_WONT_FIX_LEGACY
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Well, it's actually an internal System call that may not have been vetted when you were learning.
That's hilarious.
But frankly, I suspect it has something to do with the insufficient interest factor returned by my LearnList() function during history and geography classes.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
Um, actually, technically, the topic is literally****strong text about naming States, and what you listed are provinces, which aren't per states per se. Ironic, isn't it?
Nope, you're mixing me up with @aliceif. (I did consider calling her out on that, but decided not to.) No provinces here, states all the way. And a few territories, which are clearly out of scope for this discussion.
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Actually, they are two visually similar glyphs, either of which can be used to represent the ʻokina. If you want to call them "special snowflake apostrophes," that's up to you, but neither is specific to Hawaiian; they just happen to be useful for it
To be anal about it, Unicode doesn't define any glyphs.
And it seems to me that the plain old ASCII apostrophe U+0027 would even be a slightly better choice than U+2018: both are punctuation marks and thus semantically wrong, it's just that the ASCII character is backwards compatible and has for this reason been abused for this kind of thing for decades, so it's kind of expected. To go to great lengths entering obscure Unicode characters and then use the wrong one is just silly.
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To be anal about it, Unicode doesn't define any glyphs.
Yep, fonts define glyphs. This matters much more in ligature-heavy writing-systems (Arabic being #1 example).
Side note: “a”, “a”, “a” and “a” are all different glyphs.
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It even manages to fail at being Worse Than Failure.
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it seems to me that the plain old ASCII apostrophe U+0027 would even be a slightly better choice than U+2018: both are punctuation marks and thus semantically wrong, it's just that the ASCII character is backwards compatible and has for this reason been abused for this kind of thing for decades, so it's kind of expected
If you're limited to a standard keyboard, the most correct symbol is U+0060, ``` ``.
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