The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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@error said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
You need to slash your zeroes.
My college algebra teacher broke me of this habit, when she insisted that my correct answer 0 was actually the undefined symbol.
Because the slash should've been INSIDE the zero, not across it.
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@error said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
You need to slash your zeroes.
My college algebra teacher broke me of this habit, when she insisted that my correct answer 0 was actually the undefined symbol.
Because the slash should've been INSIDE the zero, not across it.
It was.
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@Vixen said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
But you do not value me being able to use your website. Since it's stopped remembering whatever I pick, I've taken to not bothering to look at images shared via imgur.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Vixen said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
But you do not value me being able to use your website. Since it's stopped remembering whatever I pick, I've taken to not bothering to look at images shared via imgur.
paired with
or
depending on your browser of choice....
and problem solved.
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@boomzilla Mess with crabbo, you get a stabbo.
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@Vixen said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
and problem solved.
You seem to be under the misapprehension that I have a problem that needs solving.
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@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
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@El_Heffe Milk being feminine is rather obvious, at least...
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@Vixen said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@error said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
You need to slash your zeroes.
My college algebra teacher broke me of this habit, when she insisted that my correct answer 0 was actually the undefined symbol.
or the nullset.....
but that's more discrete math than algebra.....
Did you know that the proof that the square root of 2 is irrational was discovered in the days of Pythagoras? This was problematic for him, as he didn't believe in the existence of irrational numbers... so he had the mathematician who developed the proof put to death.
Poor guy probably should have practiced some discreet math.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Poor guy probably should have practiced some discreet math.
Paging @Groaner
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@Mason_Wheeler said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@El_Heffe Milk being feminine is rather obvious, at least...
People who speak gendered languages often claim that the arbitrary assignments are logical (notwithstanding German's "Where is the turnip? She has gone to the kitchen. Where is the accomplished and beautiful English maiden? It has gone to the opera.")
Then why does German have the sun feminine and the moon masculine, while French has it the other way round?
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@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Mason_Wheeler said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@El_Heffe Milk being feminine is rather obvious, at least...
People who speak gendered languages often claim that the arbitrary assignments are logical (notwithstanding German's "Where is the turnip? She has gone to the kitchen. Where is the accomplished and beautiful English maiden? It has gone to the opera.")
Then why does German have the sun feminine and the moon masculine, while French has it the other way round?
I've yet to meet anyone who makes that claim.
In fact, one of the earlier jokes about that in Germany is to ask whether it's Der, Die or Das Nutella. For some people using the wrong article approaches sacrilege and will lead to the declaration of Jihad upon the unlucky soul.
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@Rhywden They sure deducted me a lot of points for it in high-school German.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Rhywden They sure deducted me a lot of points for it in high-school German.
That's because only Germans are allowed to get the articles wrong.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Rhywden They sure deducted me a lot of points for it in high-school German.
That's because only Germans are allowed to get the articles wrong.
Tell that to the "journalists" that have started running INSERT_FAKE_OR_UNRELIABLE_NEWS_SOURCE_HERE
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@Mason_Wheeler said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Vixen said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@error said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
You need to slash your zeroes.
My college algebra teacher broke me of this habit, when she insisted that my correct answer 0 was actually the undefined symbol.
or the nullset.....
but that's more discrete math than algebra.....
Did you know that the proof that the square root of 2 is irrational was discovered in the days of Pythagoras? This was problematic for him, as he didn't believe in the existence of irrational numbers... so he had the mathematician who developed the proof put to death.
Poor guy probably should have practiced some discreet math.
Hippasus, but the story is apocryphal.
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@El_Heffe said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
You failed case. "Schüssel" is also feminine, and the dative feminine definite article is "der". </>
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@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
why does German have the sun feminine and the moon masculine, while French has it the other way round?
Romans had sun god Apollo, (later Sol Invictus) and moon goddess Diana. Germans had sun goddess Sunna and moon god Máni.
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@Buddy said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Romans had sun god Apollo, (later Sol Invictus) and moon goddess Diana. Germans had sun goddess Sunna and moon god Máni.
And the other two moon gods, Moe and Jack.
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@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Buddy said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Romans had sun god Apollo, (later Sol Invictus) and moon goddess Diana. Germans had sun goddess Sunna and moon god Máni.
And the other two moon gods, Moe and Jack.
I know what you're after
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@El_Heffe said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
In Polish, bowl is feminine and milk is neuter.
@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
German have the sun feminine and the moon masculine
Neuter and masculine, respectively.
People who speak gendered languages often claim that the arbitrary assignments are logical
It is in Polish, kinda. The gender depends on the suffix; declension would get really awkward if these words had any other gender.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
For some people using the wrong article approaches sacrilege and will lead to the declaration of
JihadLebensraum upon the unlucky soul.
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@Buddy said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Buddy said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Romans had sun god Apollo, (later Sol Invictus) and moon goddess Diana. Germans had sun goddess Sunna and moon god Máni.
And the other two moon gods, Moe and Jack.
I know what you're after
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@error
I guess that means we are left alone with Brussels ... and we tried so hard to get rid of that hell hole through EU.
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@Luhmann B****t
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@Gąska
Barret? The French hat thing? This makes no sense!
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@error said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
The way we generally do it is, if one of us suggests something and the other says no, they should offer two other alternatives to choose from. It's worked pretty well for my wife and I so far!
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Well, I wouldn't want to be seen participating in hotdog eating contests.
But then I probably wouldn't participate in a hotdog eating contest.
yes I know what that really is.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@error said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
The way we generally do it is, if one of us suggests something and the other says no, they should offer two other alternatives to choose from. It's worked pretty well for my wife and I so far!
Give it some time.
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
It is in Polish, kinda. The gender depends on the suffix; declension would get really awkward if these words had any other gender.
Some of the suffixes appear in more than one gender, though, don't they? At least they do in Czech.
Also in Czech only masculine words ever appear without suffix in nominative, which means foreign male names can usually be flexed by simply applying the first template, but flexing female names gets rather awkward.
For it's own surnames, which tend to be derived from arbitrary words, Czech (and I believe all Slavic languages) works around this by adding a suffix to female surnames. So now you can tell gender from most person's surnames (surnames based on adverbs are never flexed at all). And, of course, feminists hate it, because the suffix, “-ová”, is rather close to the suffix for masculine-owned-feminine possessive (“-ova”).
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@Bulb said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
It is in Polish, kinda. The gender depends on the suffix; declension would get really awkward if these words had any other gender.
Some of the suffixes appear in more than one gender, though, don't they?
Sure they do, although it's pretty rare. The arguably most blatant example is "mężczyzna", which has feminine -a suffix, but is a masculine word, and means "adult male". It uses feminine declension, though.
Last names are funny, because a man's last name is always declined as normal (if the last name is feminine word, it gets declined like a feminine word, but any adjectives etc. take masculine form anyway, and use masculine declension), but a woman's last name is only declined if it's feminine - if it's masculine or neuter, it doesn't get declined at all and is always written in nominative case. That's for noun last names - there are also adjective last names (about as common as noun last names), and their gender is always the same as the person's. Which means that it's extremely common for spouses, and for parents and their children, to have a different suffix in their last names - leading to all sorts of "fun" when moving abroad.
For it's own surnames, which tend to be derived from arbitrary words, Czech (and I believe all Slavic languages) works around this by adding a suffix to female surnames. So now you can tell gender from most person's surnames (surnames based on adverbs are never flexed at all). And, of course, feminists hate it, because the suffix, “-ová”, is rather close to the suffix for masculine-owned-feminine possessive (“-ova”).
Oh yeah, I remember a good dozen years ago an incident at some European or world championship hosted in Czechia, where a Polish sportswoman won a medal - and everyone kept getting her last name wrong in all the announcements.
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@Bulb said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Also in Czech only masculine words ever appear without suffix in nominative, which means foreign male names can usually be flexed by simply applying the first template, but flexing female names gets rather awkward.
Actually, correcting myself. Some actually do have no suffix in nominative. However for some reason they don't get used for declining foreign feminine names not ending in „-a“ or „-e“. Perhaps due to the way they use softening of the last consonant. Or maybe simply because it is not the default.
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Sure they do, although it's pretty rare. The arguably most blatant example is "mężczyzna", which has feminine -a suffix, but is a masculine word, and means "adult male". It uses feminine declension, though.
if the last name is feminine word, it gets declined like a feminine word
In Czech there are separate templates, and the masculine template that matches the original suffix in nominative is used. So the original feminine and the name declined in masculine differ in 3rd and 6th case and some plural cases.
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
but a woman's last name is only declined if it's feminine - if it's masculine or neuter, it doesn't get declined at all and is always written in nominative case.
That's how it behaves with foreign names here as well. But for native we have the suffix (Russian also does, though it's just „-a“ there, so I thought all Slavic languages do, but maybe not).
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A friend of mine has a part in a local production of The Fiddler on the Roof. He says he can always tell who's familiar with the show and who isn't by how impressed they are when he tells them he got the role of the fiddler.
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