I can name all the States!
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Alabama
Arkansas (this ends with an "s"? Okay, TIL...)
Florida
California
Hawaii (doesn't this have an apostrophe?)
North Carolina
South Carolina
NorthWest****strong text Virginia (again, I'm almost certain I corrected this. I guess, being Canada, every direction is North to me)
Virginia (fuck South Virginia with in it's starhole)
New Hampshire
New York
New Jersey
New Mexico (So many news! Oh yeah, while I'm going to make MY OWN Mexico-- except WITHOUT hookers, or blackjack)
Louisianan(Fuck the N)
Wyoming
Idaho
Texas
Michigan
Ohio (o hi, @apapadimoulis)
Maryland
Rhode Island
Massachusetts (massive two shits is not a good mnemonic)
Pennsylvania
Washington
Connecticut
Delaware
Georgia
Illinois
Indiana
Kansas (it's around this point I've gone through all the ones of the top of my head, and I'm going through the alphabet now)
Montana
OmahaNebraska
Tennessee
Utah
Vermont
Maine (getting harder...)
Arizona (learn to swim)
Minnesota
Alaska
Colorado
Kentucky
Nevada
Wisconsin
Oregon (you have died of dysentery)
Mississippi (that one took me a second)
Iowa
Oklahoma
North Dakota
South Dakota (I knew there was one more direction pair)
++ Missouri (I know I typed this in, not sure where it went thanks @ChaosTheEternal)
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@Lorne_Kates said:
Hawaii (doesn't this have an apostrophe?)
I think it's meant to (Hawai'i), but it does seem to be optional nowadays
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Two fundamental States: On || Off
State Transition and Transition Triggering - now there's a thing or two
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Two fundamental States: On || Off
no! that's not the fundamental states!
the fundamental states are spin-up and spin-down!
Quantum physics anyone?
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You're missing Missouri, misspelled Louisiana, and it's West Virginia, not North.
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Semantically, they look like transitions....
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Semantically, they look like transitions....
oh they are very different i assure you.
for one thing spin-up and spin-down are fundamental states of particles, On is not a state of a particle but of a system, and not just any system, a moving system! that system is composed of particles, and if it's composed of something else it can't be fundamental!
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Two, other, fundamental States: Spin-up || Spin-down.
Yet another fundamental State pair: Stationary || Moving.
Wet and dry could count, but I don't think Up or Down would.
If you take something like a value relative to a central value, you have Three States: Negative || Neutral || Positive
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Stationary || Moving.
ah, but these aren't fundamental as they depend on a given reference frame! change the reference frame and without affecting the objkects or systems under observation in any way you have changed their "fundamental" state!
so motion or lack of motion cannot be a fundamental state
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I ain't gonna bite...
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for Northern carpetbagger stealing my idea...
But, good job.
Filed under: Did you get Moldova? It's next to Transnistria
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What you get up to within the sanctity of your nest / den is between you, your god and "the" consenting partner. If I was curious, I would ferret it out
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Area 51 is the 51st state, right?
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Some would have it that the UK is the 51st State.
Good comeback tho
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Wow, including mistakes, you did better than 99% of Americans.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
North Dakota
Somewhere out there, there's a commercial for the LDS where a bully tries to get another kid to cheat on the test, and goes "What's the capitol of North Dakota?"
Fun times.
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Huh, a topic where the title actually explains the OP? Man, you see something new here everytime!
Filed Under. Also, good job, I guess?
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@Lorne_Kates said:
NorthVirginia (again, I'm almost certain I corrected this. I guess, being Canada, every direction is North to me)
Virginia (fuck South Virginia with in it's starhole)You missed West Virginia, which used to be part of Virginia before the Civil War. (Why is it called the Civil War when it was pretty darned uncivil?)
@Lorne_Kates said:
Hawaii (doesn't this have an apostrophe?)
That depends on whether you're speaking English or Hawaiian.Edit:
I pointed it out
Reading later posts is a
to posting, etc.
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You missed West Virginia
Twice now, actually. I pointed it out and he incorrectly "corrected" it in his list.
Reading later posts
It was post #5 in the topic, so:
Reading
laterposts is a to posting, etc.FTFY
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Why is it called the Civil War when it was pretty darned uncivil?
It seems to be a term used for when both sides are the same nationality. Or maybe between two offices in Whitehall.
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It was post #5 in the topic, so:
@HardwareGeek said:Reading
laterposts is a to posting, etc.FTFY
I was replying to post #1. #5 is later than #1, so FTFY rejected. :P I think I did read as far as #3 or maybe #4 before I replied, but obviously not as far as #5.
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(Why is it called the Civil War when it was pretty darned uncivil?)
I suppose it's a simpler concept than internecine
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Twice now, actually. I pointed it out and he incorrectly "corrected" it in his list.
The best kind of "correct".
Seriously, though, fuck states with the same name but different directions. Unless you're going to keep them all the same directional-pairings, I refuse to make the neural connections to adequately disambiguate them.
North Dakota, South Dakota
North Carolina, South Carolina
Virgina and The Other Fucking State (they can fight out which one gets to be which)
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I suppose it's a simpler concept than internecine
I don't think it's really a different concept, but it is a simpler word.
TIL: The correct spelling of internecine. I've always heard internecine pronounced incorrectly; therefore, I thought @loose misspelled it.
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it's a bugger of a word
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@Lorne_Kates said:
they can fight out which one gets to be which
They did. That's why they're separate states now.
@Lorne_Kates said:
The Other Fucking State
Everybody there is a cousin to pretty much everybody else there.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
Virgina and The Other Fucking State (they can fight out which one gets to be which)
That is pretty much literally what happened.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
Hawaii (doesn't this have an apostrophe?)
That depends on whether you're speaking English or Hawaiian.I cannot allow my previous incomplete and not quite correct answer to remain uncorrected. The symbol is not an apostrophe, it is an ʻokina, and properly either
ʻor‘should be used. The apostrophe is sometimes used in environments that don't properly support Unicode, by people who don't know any better, or people who are too lazy to do it right; apparently it was also used in texts prior to a dictionary published in 1922. It is considered an actual consonant, not merely a diacritical mark, and can have semantic meaning, e.g., koʻu (my) versus kou (your).
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people who are too lazy to do it right
What about people who aren't too lazy, but are aggresively uninterested in using a non-English character in a the English name of a state? Asking for a friend.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
Virgina and The Other Fucking State (they can fight out which one gets to be which)
That is pretty much literally what happened.
Except they're both still have Virginia in their name, so there's still some asses that need kicking and some names that need takin'. Taken away, that is.
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What about people who aren't too lazy, but are aggresively uninterested in using a non-English character in a the English name of a state? Asking for a friend.
Your friend can leave it out entirely. The official, Federally recognized English spelling has neither apostrophe nor ʻokina. Even the state's constitution leaves it out, because it was written before the ʻokina was widely used in modern orthography. (Even though it was used in the 1922 dictionary, it apparently wasn't widely adopted until quite a bit later, at least if the ultimate repository of all human knowledge is to be believed.)
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Plasma, Gas, Liquid, Solid, and Bose-Einstein Condensate.
And maybe throw in electron degenerate, neutron degenerate, Fermi degenerate gas, and quark degenerate, but they're kind of difficult to fit into that ranking.
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Kryta, Ascalon, Maguuma, Shiverpeaks, Steamspur, Orr
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but I don't think Up or Down would
They're fine as well as you also add Strange, Charm, Bottom and
PeppermintTop.
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Now with Europe countries. Good luck on the Balkans.
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There was also this one:
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Good luck on the Balkans.
Does Transnistria count? (And can we go from there to Mornington Crescent? [spoiler]Well, it depends on whether we're using the 2011 Moscow Official Corrected Rules or not…[/spoiler])
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No. Neither Ossetia, although that's Asia... right? Man it was easier with the URSS. Stupid Reagan.
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The Georgian people say they're in Europe. Also with them outside, Elbrus wilder be the highest European mountain.
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Now with Europe countries. Good luck on the Balkans.
- By the time you're done, some country will have been absorbed into another, or cede, or died of the Plague or whatever you have in Europe these days
- Even if you do get them all, one of the named countries will disagree that one of the other named countries is even a country. I'd say you'd start a war, but Europe doesn't have guns. They'll probably file a motion in the UN.
@blakeyrat : Saved you some typing.
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it is an ʻokina, and properly either ʻ or ‘ should be used
TRWTF os that Unicode has 2 (TWO) special snowflake apostrophes for special snowflake Hawaiians, while Bengali people still can't write their name.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
I'd say you'd start a war, but Europe doesn't have guns. They'll probably file a motion in the UN.
I'd argue with that if it wasn't true ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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TRWTF os that Unicode has 2 (TWO) special snowflake apostrophes for special snowflake Hawaiians
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
Bengali people still can't write their name
I don't know anything about this issue, so I can't comment on it. I'm pretty sure a Bengali script exists in Unicode, but that is the entirety of my knowledge of anything related to Bengali. I can't even guess at the quality of the implementation, but if it's deficient, just maybe the Unicode folks should spend some effort fixing it rather than adding more useless emoji..
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