Programming Memes Thread
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@Zecc exactly as much
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@Gąska said in Programming Memes Thread:
I was about to remark they could've just gone with "slash writers", because that's specifically fanfic that's "shipping", but TIL that term is only used for same sex fiction. Huh, doesn't really make sense, tbh.
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@topspin you have Star Trek fandom to thank for that.
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@Gąska what do you mean by that?
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@topspin per Wikipedia:
It is commonly believed that slash fan fiction originated during the late 1970s, within the Star Trek: The Original Series fan fiction fandom, starting with "Kirk/Spock" stories generally authored by female fans of the series.[1][5] The name arises from the use of the slash symbol (/) in mentions in the late '70s of K/S (meaning stories where Kirk and Spock had a romantic [and often sexual] relationship), as compared to the ampersand (&) conventionally used for K&S or Kirk and Spock friendship fiction. For a time, both slash and K/S (for "Kirk/Spock") were used interchangeably. Slash later spread to other fan groups, first Starsky and Hutch, Blake's 7, and The Professionals,[4] then many others, eventually creating a fandom based on the concept of slash.[6][7] Many early slash stories were based on a pairing of two close friends, a "hero dyad", or "One True Pairing", such as Kirk/Spock or Starsky/Hutch; conversely, a classic pairing between foils was that of Blake/Avon from Blake's 7.[8]
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I guess I should be glad I don't know who Kirk and Spock are.
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@Gąska said in Programming Memes Thread:
I don't know who Kirk and Spock are.
What rock have you been living under?
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@topspin said in Programming Memes Thread:
@Gąska said in Programming Memes Thread:
I don't know who Kirk and Spock are.
What rock have you been living under?
A shiny one
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@Gąska Kirk is the one on the left, the captain of the ship; Spock is the one on the right, second in command, half alien.
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@Arantor said in Programming Memes Thread:
half alien
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@topspin said in Programming Memes Thread:
@Gąska said in Programming Memes Thread:
I don't know who Kirk and Spock are.
What rock have you been living under?
Contemporary one.
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@Gąska said in Programming Memes Thread:
@topspin said in Programming Memes Thread:
@Gąska said in Programming Memes Thread:
I don't know who Kirk and Spock are.
What rock have you been living under?
Contemporary one.
The latest installment is from 2016, so only about 50 Chrome releases:
Front line are Spock, Kirk, McCoy.
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@topspin it was a double entendrę of sorts. You see, Star Trek takes place in the future.
...I'll show myself out.
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@Zerosquare my keyboard lacks accents so I replace them with ogoneks. Yes, I'm aware there's no accent in entendre.
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@Gąska said in Programming Memes Thread:
@Zerosquare my keyboard lacks accents so I replace them with ogoneks.
Now you’re mixing your franchises. You see, those were in LOTR.
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@Zerosquare it means "tail". And it's identical to the typographic concept of a tail. It literally is the same as a tail. But for whatever reason, English linguists decided to make a loan word from a language they never loan from just to have a special name for that thing that's only ever used for two lowercase letters in one obscure language and nothing else.
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@Gąska said in Programming Memes Thread:
English linguistics decided to make a loan word from a language they never loan from
Something about pursuing other languages down alleyways and rifling their pockets.
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@Gąska said in Programming Memes Thread:
@Zerosquare it means "tail".
Not a bit tail though. Just a tailette.
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@boomzilla said in Programming Memes Thread:
I'll never not upvote this, as long as it doesn't become the next
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@Zecc said in Programming Memes Thread:
@boomzilla said in Programming Memes Thread:
I'll never not upvote this, as long as it doesn't become the next
Post it twice, shame on you. Post it three times, shame on me...
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@Gąska said in Programming Memes Thread:
make a loan word from a language they never loan from just to have a special name for that thing that's only ever used for two lowercase letters in one obscure language and nothing else.
Just wondering, does Polish happen to have a word for this?
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@Gribnit In Slav languages, the word for Germans is something like "nemetski". That means: "those who do not understand".
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@BernieTheBernie Those who are mute (do not speak; nothing to do with understanding).
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@Bulb said in Programming Memes Thread:
@BernieTheBernie Those who are mute (do not speak; nothing to do with understanding).
This clarifies - to a degree. That is a nice word you got there tho. A real nice word.
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Germans, mute? They must never have heard them talk.
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@Bulb said in Programming Memes Thread:
@BernieTheBernie Those who are mute (do not speak; nothing to do with understanding).
or cannot be understood, because they speak too foreign a language?
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@BernieTheBernie said in Programming Memes Thread:
@Bulb said in Programming Memes Thread:
@BernieTheBernie Those who are mute (do not speak; nothing to do with understanding).
or cannot be understood, because they speak too foreign a language?
What's the difference? Incidentally, all non-loanword names for a language's originating culture trace back to the word for "people". By extension, we are surely doomed. Film at 11.
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@Zerosquare said in Programming Memes Thread:
@Gąska said in Programming Memes Thread:
ogoneks
TIL I learned the name of that weird hook thing.
It's also called a "cedilla" or a "comma diacritic"; however, some extremely pedantic people reserve "cedilla" for consonants and "ogonek" for vowels.
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@djls45 Those are actually three different diacritics. Which one is used and which letters it can be validly applied to depends on the language being written. If two are used by the same language, then typically the cedilla will be used for consonants and the ogonek for vowels, but in practice they're often visually indistinguishable, especially when handwritten.
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@HardwareGeek Instead of that dotted circle, you'd better use a as base symbol.
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@BernieTheBernie said in Programming Memes Thread:
use a as base symbol.
Technically, only the
drupe
and its mounting arependant
in that symbol - the chain is just a chain (were it significantly over-length, so as to droop more sharply than a catenoid, it could perhaps be considered pendant q.q. , but here, we have a circle, deviating in the opposite direction from the catenary).
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@Gribnit said in Programming Memes Thread:
@BernieTheBernie said in Programming Memes Thread:
use a as base symbol.
Technically, only the
drupe
and its mounting arependant
in that symbol - the chain is just a chain (were it significantly over-length, so as to droop more sharply than a catenoid, it could perhaps be considered pendant q.q. , but here, we have a circle, deviating in the opposite direction from the catenary).A collier then?
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@Gribnit said in Programming Memes Thread:
drupe
And we are back to biology:
drupe
/druːp/
Learn to pronounce
noun
noun: drupe; plural noun: drupes1. Botany a fleshy fruit with thin skin and a central stone containing the seed, e.g. a plum, cherry, almond, or olive. 2. a small marine mollusc with a thick knobbly shell, found mainly in the Indo-Pacific.
Is @Gribnit a biologist? He could then be very helpful in other topics.
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@Gribnit said in Programming Memes Thread:
Incidentally, all non-loanword names for a language's originating culture trace back to the word for "people".
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@BernieTheBernie said in Programming Memes Thread:
He could then be very helpful in other topics.
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@dkf said in Programming Memes Thread:
@BernieTheBernie said in Programming Memes Thread:
He could then be very helpful in other topics.
I'm quite serious about my non-compete clauses. Anything which appears helpful, is almost certainly fatal. Note that the inverse does not hold.
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@remi eh, what is France.
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@PleegWat said in Programming Memes Thread:
@Gribnit said in Programming Memes Thread:
@BernieTheBernie said in Programming Memes Thread:
use a as base symbol.
Technically, only the
drupe
and its mounting arependant
in that symbol - the chain is just a chain (were it significantly over-length, so as to droop more sharply than a catenoid, it could perhaps be considered pendant q.q. , but here, we have a circle, deviating in the opposite direction from the catenary).A collier then?
No, that's the guy who wrote the dictionary.
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@LaoC I thought it was done by his bitter sister and a giant spider. TIL.
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@boomzilla There's humor in repetition. But it gets old, you know?