Random Thought of the Day
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@Zecc said in Random Thought of the Day:
@PleegWat That would be a Bad Idea.
Say, do we have a bad ideas threads?
Better create one just to be safe
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@hungrier said in Random Thought of the Day:
@Zecc said in Random Thought of the Day:
@PleegWat That would be a Bad Idea.
Say, do we have a bad ideas threads?
Better create one just to be safe
Are you sure that is a good idea?
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@PleegWat said in Random Thought of the Day:
@hungrier said in Random Thought of the Day:
@Zecc said in Random Thought of the Day:
@PleegWat That would be a Bad Idea.
Say, do we have a bad ideas threads?
Better create one just to be safe
Are you sure that is a good idea?
Of course not. What is this, the sure ideas thread?
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Teachers need to know how to teach. College professors of future teachers need to know how to teach teaching. College professors of future college professors need to know how to teach teaching teaching.
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It's teachers all the way down!
Teaching teaching teaching is a subcategory of teaching teaching.
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@Gąska said in Random Thought of the Day:
Teachers need to know how to teach. College professors of future teachers need to know how to teach teaching. College professors of future college professors need to know how to teach teaching teaching.
Building - putting things together, or a thing that's been put together.
Builder - someone who puts things together.
Buildering - climbing things someone put together.
Builderer - someone who climbs things someone put together.
Builderering - climbing people who climb things someone put together.
Buildererer - someone who climbs people who climb things someone put together.
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@da-Doctah Given there are only 9 Google results for "builderering", it feels super unlucky that it turns out you were not the first one to come up with this joke. You've got d by 19 years. For bonus weirdness, the linked posts also mentions teachers.
Also, this gem:
NEW DETAILS ON NUDIE TALE
Possum Switch, Oct 17: When questioned, cow orkers at Melinda Smith-Barraclough's Sunlovers' Bareass Retreat, Tack Shop and Hydrotherapy Boutique claimed that Ms. Smith was not nude at all when splattered across the grill of a Freightliner hauling watermelons and turnips into town for the Annual Veggiefest, simply that her Woodlands Camo thong was lost in the mess.
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@Gąska said in Random Thought of the Day:
@da-Doctah Given there are only 9 Google results for "builderering", it feels super unlucky that it turns out you were not the first one to come up with this joke. You've got d by 19 years. For bonus weirdness, the linked posts also mentions teachers.
I don't suppose those Google results include posts to Usenet, because while I may not be able to claim primacy, I do remember posting about the topic close to a couple of decades ago.
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@da-Doctah said in Random Thought of the Day:
@Gąska said in Random Thought of the Day:
@da-Doctah Given there are only 9 Google results for "builderering", it feels super unlucky that it turns out you were not the first one to come up with this joke. You've got d by 19 years. For bonus weirdness, the linked posts also mentions teachers.
I don't suppose those Google results include posts to Usenet
They used to (no pun intended). Sometimes. Very inconsistently. Google works in mysterious ways.
@da-Doctah said in Random Thought of the Day:
close to a couple of decades ago.
That literally means 19 years.
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Also, daily reminder that two decades ago was 2001.
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@Gąska said in Random Thought of the Day:
@da-Doctah said in Random Thought of the Day:
close to a couple of decades ago.
That literally means 19 years.
It also means 21 years. And maybe 18 years and 22 years, depending on your definition of "close to". And certainly 19 years eleven months and 29 days.
I know it was about twenty years, but I've never been good at remembering just how long ago things happened. And neither is Google Groups.
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@boomzilla Heard this morning on the radio, about a politician who undercut his leader in a surprise move (of internal party politics, who cares...):
He dealt his leader a kick in the shins, and maybe even in softer parts.
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@remi Finally a politician who isn't all bad.
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is Korean for
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@hungrier said in Random Thought of the Day:
@Zecc said in Random Thought of the Day:
@PleegWat That would be a Bad Idea.
Say, do we have a bad ideas threads?
Better create one just to be safe
Threads are free!
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@Zecc said in Random Thought of the Day:
It's teachers all the way down!
Teaching teaching teaching is a subcategory of teaching teaching.
And this is when I start thinking "teaching" is spelled wrong.
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Vietnam is in the enviable position, for geographic and historical reasons, of having its culture and particularly its cuisine influenced by perhaps the two best countries in the world to influence a national cuisine: China and France.
The two best-known Vietnamese dishes here in the West are banh mi (a sandwich, thus taking its cue from the bread France is so famous for) and pho (properly phở, but my keyboard is missing its flyspeck keys) a soup whose very name derives from pot-au-feu.
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@da-Doctah said in Random Thought of the Day:
a soup whose very name derives from pot-au-feu.
Dubious at best. Phở most likely originates from a Chinese dish called 牛肉粉 (you can see how similar the names are). Especially when you consider phở contains rice noodles, very popular in China since times immemorial. Pot-au-feu doesn't even have noodles. Or broth, another major ingredient of the soup.
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@Gąska said in Random Thought of the Day:
Phở most likely originates from a Chinese dish called 牛肉粉 (you can see how similar the names are)
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When a car is acting up, you check the oil and generally not the fuel, but when a human is acting up you check the blood and generally not the lymph.
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@Gribnit Depending on the nature of acting up, I might check if hungry and/or in need of a good shit.
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@Arantor said in Random Thought of the Day:
@Gribnit Depending on the nature of acting up, I might check if hungry and/or in need of a good shit.
Fair. I probably should have scoped this to fluid draws.
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@Gribnit said in Random Thought of the Day:
scoped this to fluid draws.
@Arantor 's point still stand firm for a male populus
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@Gribnit said in Random Thought of the Day:
@Arantor said in Random Thought of the Day:
@Gribnit Depending on the nature of acting up, I might check if hungry and/or in need of a good shit.
Fair. I probably should have scoped this to fluid draws.
I think we've covered three of the four humours at this point. Just phlegm left unaccounted for.
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@da-Doctah
Something of the Head
Something of the Body
Something of the Thread
Something of the Dead
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@Arantor said in Random Thought of the Day:
@da-Doctah
Something of the Head
Something of the Body
Something of the Thread
Something of the DeadWhich one does the vitreous humor count as? Then again, it's not like you can substitute for it. Nothing else quite tastes the same.
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@Gribnit well, in the origin of that little rubric, phlegm is considered Something of the Body, first when mixed with spit, the second time mixed with snot.
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I see @Arantor is a man of culture as well.
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@Arantor said in Random Thought of the Day:
Something of the Dead
They've really been phoning it in with these zombie movie titles lately
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@hungrier you're onto something. I get 6 Google results about Zack Snyder before a single one about Monkey Island.
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How do French
text-to-speech-to-text programs deal with the silent -x at the end of words that are often the only difference between singular and plural words, which in speech are identical?
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I don't get your question. Did you mean speech-to-text instead of text-to-speech?
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@Gąska assuming you mean speech-to-text, is "badly" a good answer?
Seriously though, I have no idea as I don't use such programs, but I'd guess the true answer is "in the same way as they deal with any homophone in any language? (e.g. night/knight and many others in English)
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@Zerosquare said in Random Thought of the Day:
I don't get your question. Did you mean speech-to-text instead of text-to-speech?
Yes. Yes I did.
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I suspect they're using grammatical analysis, such as looking at articles (e.g. le/la for singular, les for plural), and maybe using statistics to determine which possibility is more likely. It's not perfect by any means, they get it wrong occasionally. So does the grammar check feature in Word, for complex sentences.
For French, recognizing the phonemes is only half the job of converting speech to text. It may even be the easiest half.
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@remi said in Random Thought of the Day:
@Gąska assuming you mean speech-to-text, is "badly" a good answer?
Seriously though, I have no idea as I don't use such programs, but I'd guess the true answer is "in the same way as they deal with any homophone in any language? (e.g. night/knight and many others in English)
Badly.
Gallahad was a great night.
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@Zerosquare said in Random Thought of the Day:
I suspect they're using grammatical analysis, such as looking at articles (e.g. le/la for singular, les for plural), and maybe using statistics to determine which possibility is more likely. It's not perfect by any means, they get it wrong occasionally. So does the grammar check feature in Word, for complex sentences.
For French, recognizing the phonemes is only half the job of converting speech to text. It may even be the easiest half.
I thought La Academie had criminalized converting the pure spoken word to the debased written word.
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@izzion said in Random Thought of the Day:
the pure spoken word to the debased written word
I thought the pure form was sneering. Speaking is still allowed?
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@izzion said in Random Thought of the Day:
La Academie
L'Académie. They're coming for you.
Fortunately, they're about as fast and dangerous as snails.
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@izzion said in Random Thought of the Day:
I thought La Academie had criminalized converting the pure spoken word to the debased written word.
It's time to repeat a fun fact I learnt recently: in its first editions, the Académie officially and purposefully picked some complex and counter-intuitive spellings to make writing less accessible to common people.
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@Zerosquare said in Random Thought of the Day:
They're coming for you.
And with swords!
Fortunately, their puny epees are no match for @izzion's Balmung
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Random Thought of the Day:
@Zerosquare said in Random Thought of the Day:
They're coming for you.
And with swords!
Fortunately, their puny epees are no match for @izzion's Balmung
Get thee behind me, erpSatan!
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@remi I've heard, apocryphally, that the changes from early Latin to classical Latin were similar. They had Greek envy and wanted to make the language more complex to show the superiority of those who could master it. Dunno if true though.
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@Gąska well, I can't do it either, and I'm not an AI as far as I know...
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@Arantor said in Random Thought of the Day:
I'm not an AI as far as I know
That's what they want you to think.
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@HardwareGeek said in Random Thought of the Day:
@Arantor said in Random Thought of the Day:
I'm not an AI as far as I know
That's what they want you to think.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Random Thought of the Day:
@remi I've heard, apocryphally, that the changes from early Latin to classical Latin were similar. They had Greek envy and wanted to make the language more complex to show the superiority of those who could master it. Dunno if true though.
If true, that would be even more devious than what the Académie did, since there is no direct link between Greek and Latin. At least the Académie had the excuse to say "we're trying to fit the spelling to the Latin etymology."
( because, in the abstract, why should spelling match the etymology rather than the pronunciation, which was the alternative that they refused?)