The Official First World Problems Thread™
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@Luhmann That would be...
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@Luhmann said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra
you could try and start your own language ...Alternatively, champion Esperanto?
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@Arantor said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
Alternatively, champion Esperanto?
Ne verŝajne, sunbrilo!
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@Arantor No language can possibly hope to be any kind of universal if it has any kind of funny-looking letters.
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@remi said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
Reminds me of when I ordered a few boxes of bottles of wine recently. The delivery cost was more expensive than the cost of the cheapest boxes, so it was cheaper to add a few more boxes to my order and get the free delivery, than pay for delivery.
I bought something on eBay a few days ago. $1.30 (or something like that), with $5.99 shipping. So I bought several, to spread the shipping cost over more things, only to discover the $5.99 was just for the first item, and each additional item was an additional $1.99 shipping, so I was still paying more for shipping than the actual items. Still, even with the shipping, a good price for the items (assuming they work) — tiny stepper motors for < $0.40 each.
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@Applied-Mediocrity that depends on what you define as “funny looking”.
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@Arantor said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
I’m British so naturally I only speak the one language, insist everyone speaks it and everyone else has to fit around me.
And if they don't speak English, the solution is simply to continue speaking English, but slower and louder.
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@HardwareGeek exactly, that’s how we do it.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@Arantor No language can possibly hope to be any kind of universal if it has any kind of funny-looking letters.
Ναι, αυτό είναι πολύ αλήθεια.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@Arantor No language can possibly hope to be any kind of universal if it has any kind of funny-looking letters.
Ναι, αυτό είναι πολύ αλήθεια.
That's Greek to me.
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@nerd4sale said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@Arantor No language can possibly hope to be any kind of universal if it has any kind of funny-looking letters.
Ναι, αυτό είναι πολύ αλήθεια.
That's Greek to me.
Ναι, ναι, είναι ελλινικὀ για ὀλους.
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@Arantor Any kind of diacritics.
A would-be universal language shall remain compatible with existing forms of information storage and processing. Computers as they are now aren't going anywhere (perhaps unfortunately), and Unicode is a mess. Those 26 letters (or less) are the most common at a very basic level even in places where different kind of squiggles are used.
I'm not saying it's a good idea, but I believe it's the most realistic (for very small values of realistic, since the universal language idea itself is unworkable).
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@Arantor said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
I’m British so naturally I only speak the one language, insist everyone speaks it and everyone else has to fit around me.
Definitely something us USAians kept from our parents.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
Any kind of diacritics.
So not English either.
It's called a tittle but it fits the definition of a diacritic and is called one on the page I linked.
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@remi said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
Any kind of diacritics.
So not English either.
It's called a tittle but it fits the definition of a diacritic and is called one on the page I linked.
That sort of technical pendantry is out of the scope of my argument, since ASCII provides the distinction. I'm ambivalent about removing lowercase/uppercase distinction. While it may further simplify the writing, in doing so it would simultaneously distance itself from existing Latin-alphabet languages. A step forward and backward at the same time.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
That sort of technical pendantry is out of the scope of my argument
Where are you again?
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@dkf said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
That sort of technical pendantry is out of the scope of my argument
Where are you again?
Apparently he's a hacker that took over @Applied-Mediocrity's account, I think we need some mod inaction here.
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@izzion said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
I think we need some mod inaction here.
I'm on it.
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@Arantor said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@Luhmann said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra
you could try and start your own language ...Alternatively, champion Esperanto?
The funniest thing about Esperanto is that as soon as they started experimenting on kids (teaching it as their first language), those native Esperanto speakers have naturally deviated from textbook Esperanto.
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@Arantor said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@Luhmann said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra
you could try and start your own language ...Alternatively, champion Esperanto?
If we all started talking Esperanto, when Alex finally comes back, it probably would be the funniest troll that ever occurred on this forum.
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@DogsB But we'd all be talking Esperanto, so who would be the real victims here?
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@DogsB said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@Arantor said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@Luhmann said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra
you could try and start your own language ...Alternatively, champion Esperanto?
If we all started talking Esperanto, when Alex finally comes back, it probably would be the funniest troll that ever occurred on this forum.
Lojban might be even funnier.
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@Zecc said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@DogsB But we'd all be talking Esperanto, so who would be the real victims here?
Alex. He'll never be able to make the forum profitable and he'll be the proud owner of the largest collection of overly pedantic memes in Esperanto.
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@Carnage said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@DogsB said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@Arantor said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@Luhmann said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra
you could try and start your own language ...Alternatively, champion Esperanto?
If we all started talking Esperanto, when Alex finally comes back, it probably would be the funniest troll that ever occurred on this forum.
Lojban might be even funnier.
We're not 4chan levels of autistic.
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@DogsB said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
memes in Esperanto.
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LMTDWTFTFY:
@Zecc said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@DogsB But we'd all be talking Esperanto, so who would be the real victims here?
kial ne ambaŭ?
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@Gąska said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@DogsB said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
memes in Esperanto.
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@Zecc said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
LTDWTFTFY:
@Zecc said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@DogsB But we'd all be talking Esperanto, so who would be the real victims here?
kial ne ambaŭ?
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@DogsB said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
Alex. He'll never be able to make the forum profitable and he'll be the proud owner of the largest collection of overly pedantic memes in Esperanto.
Because of course being the proud owner of the largest collection of overly pedantic memes not in Esperanto makes the forum profitable?
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@Carnage said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@DogsB said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@Arantor said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@Luhmann said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra
you could try and start your own language ...Alternatively, champion Esperanto?
If we all started talking Esperanto, when Alex finally comes back, it probably would be the funniest troll that ever occurred on this forum.
Lojban might be even funnier.
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@dcon E_NOT_IN_MADE_UP_LANGUAGE
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@Arantor said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@Zecc very possibly. I’m British so naturally I only speak the one language, insist everyone speaks it and everyone else has to fit around me.
Ah yes, expecting the whole world speaks Welsh...
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Aka
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I'm still waiting for money to be transferred from my bank account to my credit card so that I can buy a bigger monitor on sale at the moment. I don't need the monitor. I just want it because it's shiny.
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You mean it's one with a glossy LCD panel?
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@Zerosquare said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
You mean it's one with a glossy LCD panel?
No! HDR600! Do I have anything that pushes that at the moment? No!
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@DogsB said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
I'm still waiting for money to be transferred from my bank account to my credit card so that I can buy a bigger monitor on sale at the moment. I don't need the monitor. I just want it because it's shiny.
Isn't the whole point of credit cards that you can "buy it on credit"?
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@JBert said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@DogsB said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
I'm still waiting for money to be transferred from my bank account to my credit card so that I can buy a bigger monitor on sale at the moment. I don't need the monitor. I just want it because it's shiny.
Isn't the whole point of credit cards that you can "buy it on credit"?
Prepaid credit card, but your pedantry has been noted.
Next problem!
My credit card app didn't pop a notification when the money came in so I have missed the window for next day delivery. I'll have to wait until Monday now.
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@DogsB it keeps getting worse the more you respond!
Keep coming with more !
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@DogsB it keeps getting worse the more you respond!
Keep coming with more !
I currently have two monitors on the desk the new one is destined for, and I'm running out of space in the cupboard to store monitors I'll never use. There's two in there now. When this new one comes, there will be four.
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@DogsB I propose a mutually beneficial solution: change the shipping address to mine
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The monitor I bought is too big for my VESA mount, so I have to buy a new mount to facilitate my new monitor.
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@DogsB
Communism can solve that problem!
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My monitor is up and running, but I can't test hdr from my laptop.
Also, I cut my thumb while putting on the monitor, so now I have to enter a passcode to dismiss the lock screen on my phone.
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@DogsB said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
I cut my thumb
You have only the one?
I can unlock my phone via either thumb, middle fingers, Pinkie, and large toe...
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@Tsaukpaetra I have questions I don't want answered.
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@Gąska said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra I have questions I don't want answered.
In this case you have questions no-one wants answered
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Go home, Outlook Mobile, you're so drunk you're slurring your packets.