Things that remind you of WDTWTF members
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@SlackerD said in Prepare to be Inspired! (What could possibly go wrong?):
You know who I'm talking about.
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@topspin said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@SlackerD said in Prepare to be Inspired! (What could possibly go wrong?):
You know who I'm talking about.
I know who you're talking about, but not what. does "to give up one's capacity to defeat one's trust" even mean?
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@GOG the is part of the reference.
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@topspin Ah. I see now.
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From an article linked :
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@GOG said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@topspin said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@SlackerD said in Prepare to be Inspired! (What could possibly go wrong?):
You know who I'm talking about.
I know who you're talking about, but not what. does "to give up one's capacity to defeat one's trust" even mean?
If one gives up this capacity, one is no longer able to defeat one's trust. Probably these are all the same person. The human attribute of
trust
is, of course, a common source of error.
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@boomzilla said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
Obviously a label assigned by a grammative normalist with an unhealthy Latin fixation.
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Filed under: he said that
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
I can see why they call him that; look at his life bar.
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@Gąska IDGI. Is that something to do with how you're supposed to pronounce that word?
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@remi said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@Gąska IDGI. Is that something to do with how you're supposed to pronounce that word?
Yes (it's a French word; shouldn't you notice?). Also, using IPA in casual context. Few people do that. One of them lives here.
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@Gąska said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@remi said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@Gąska IDGI. Is that something to do with how you're supposed to pronounce that word?
Yes (it's a French word; shouldn't you notice?).
Is that really? Wikipedia says it's (likely) from Latin through Anglo-Norman, or maybe Arabic, but I don't think it's specifically French in any way.
(and that is not a French word if you omit the diacritic)
Also, using IPA in casual context. Few people do that. One of them lives here.
Oh, sure. But I guess what I don't get is why that word pops up in the comic and why how it's pronounced matters to anyone (is there any other way to pronounce it? did a character in that comic mispronounce it earlier?).
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@remi said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
But I guess what I don't get is why that word pops up in the comic and why how it's pronounced matters to anyone
I discovered that, to find that out, it helps to click through and realize the comic continues on the next page.
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@ixvedeusi Oh. It's not even that won, I just... didn't think of doing that. And yet I even went to the comics page (from the footer) but since it's not the latest one I stopped there.
I also found out that this fairy-thing is called Peridot. OK, the whole thing does make some sense now.
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@remi said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
Is that really?
Yes. Any word that even hints at ending with a silent consonant is French.
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@remi said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
Wikipedia says it's (likely) from Latin through Anglo-Norman, or maybe Arabic, but I don't think it's specifically French in any way.
But it also gives both the -dɒt and quasi-French pronunciations as being correct (or at least common).
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@HardwareGeek said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@remi said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
Wikipedia says it's (likely) from Latin through Anglo-Norman, or maybe Arabic, but I don't think it's specifically French in any way.
But it also gives both the -dɒt and quasi-French pronunciations as being correct (or at least common).
First person to say it sets the pronunciation.
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@ixvedeusi said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
to click through
Things that remind you of WTDWTF Members thread is....
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@Zerosquare said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
Ah, yes, the flight stick that will not work.
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@Gribnit said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@remi said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
Is that really?
Yes. Any word that even hints at ending with a silent consonant is French.
Remember, it's /i.djo mɔ.ʁɔ̃/
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@boomzilla The two curves would be anti-correlated in my case
inb4: I'm not taking negative vacation days.
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@remi
you just need to fiddle the statistics more then ... I bet stock price does have a positive correlation with your return from vacation ...
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@Luhmann said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
you just need to fiddle the statistics more then
Management already tried that (at least twice...). The shares were once merged (i.e. every holder of 16 "old" shares suddenly became holders of 1 "new" share), and another time they were artificially re-valued, though I don't remember how (something to do with some major bank refinancing, can't remember the details and never knew or understood them anyway).
Weirdly (!), arbitrarily changing the shares' price has not stopped the years long downward slide.
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I found a @boomzilla alt outside the forum!
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@e4tmyl33t But which one of us was it?
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@remi said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
I'm not taking negative vacation days.
So you're taking positive vacation days? Seems like a good idea to me.
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@Zerosquare I feel like I'm ing... yes, I very much take "positive" vacation days (in the sense that to make the above comic work, you have to add all vacation days you're taking, i.e. counting them as positive numbers). Was there more to your post?
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You've missed the double negative on your own post.
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@Zecc Uh... that was intended..?
There are (at least) two ways the curves can be anti-correlated, either by the stock price decreasing rather than increasing, or by the number of vacations days decreasing. The latter can be seen as increasing by a negative amount, which is what I called "negative vacations." My double negative aimed at ruling that out.
(in other words, had I not added that, I'm pretty sure that someone would have /ed me by asking whether I was taking negative days. Or maybe no one would, but if someone else had made the post I made, I would have. Hence the preemptive counter-ing.)
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@remi said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
Hence the preemptive counter-ing.
You can preempt ing, but you cannot prevent an argument.
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@remi I think you're overthinking 0²'s cheap joke. Which is on par for this thread.
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@Zecc said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@remi I think you're overthinking 0²'s cheap joke. Which is on par for this thread.
Exactly.
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@Zecc said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
Which is on par for this thread.
What is, overthinking or the cheap joke? Or me not letting it die down?
(inb4: )
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@remi said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@Zecc Uh... that was intended..?
There are (at least) two ways the curves can be anti-correlated, either by the stock price decreasing rather than increasing, or by the number of vacations days decreasing. The latter can be seen as increasing by a negative amount, which is what I called "negative vacations." My double negative aimed at ruling that out.
(in other words, had I not added that, I'm pretty sure that someone would have /ed me by asking whether I was taking negative days. Or maybe no one would, but if someone else had made the post I made, I would have. Hence the preemptive counter-ing.)
Well, if you work on a weekend, it would be a negative vacation day.