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No, it's fitting. You shouldn't believe anything you read on the WWW, IRC, NNTP, e-mail, ..... so on and so forth.
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Or Dick Diablo
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THAT sounds like an American TV show.
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Thanks!
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Or Joe Barbeque
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more grammar nazism. This sentence in the first paragraph of the post really confused me:
But -- bad news -- it just wasn't his thing.
If you understand how the dash is normally used, you would parse this as if "it just wasn't his thing" is the bad news alluded to between the dashes. You would see the "bad news" and think, "uh-oh, bad news is coming." Consider this similarly formed sentence: But -- and this is the scary part -- it just wasn't his thing. See what I mean? That doesn't mean "and this is the scary part" wasn't his thing, obviously.
I'm pretty sure the author meant "But bad news just wasn't his thing." I'm not too stupid, but it did take me a while to figure that out at 9am in the morning.
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Agreed, the original story is much better. Amazing how much the story is embellished by Alex. Nice to see the original for a change.
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Finally someone who gets it right. Sure took a while. Suggesting that 10M would only have one significant figure just because it ENDS with a zero is an extreme WTF.
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The Real WTF here is that non-native speakers of English know more about our grammar than most native speakers (at least Americans; can't speak to the state of British education, though I hope it's better). I had never even heard of things like "future perfect" and "subjunctive " until I started studying French in high school. Kind of difficult to learn tenses in another language when you don't know what they're called in your own...
For the record, I agree that "make" is correct, though I would probably rewrite the end of the sentence to make it more straightforward: "in order to get a free copy".
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Making fun of the USD -> CAD exchange rate was hilarious when it was 1.6 and their salaries were equivalent to ours in local dollars.
It is much less funny now that it is to 1.1.
See, if Canadian salaries are 20% more than ours in local dollars, but their dollars are only worth 10% less than ours, they are richer than we are as a people.
Not funny, so much as it is ignorant.
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I think it's funny that the anyone expected the short-timers to actually be doing anything. Their prior reputation didn't seem to be all that great anyway, but then to expect AFTER they've been let go via email was extremely naive. I know my motivation would be sapped after being let go in a manner as cowardly as email.
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<spellingnazialert>
When you say <grammernazialert>, I'm sure you mean <grammarnazialert>. I'm just so sure.
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I understand that the exchange rate is black and white. But to make a statement like this is just ignorant. Not only do I have no idea where you got your facts that their salaries are 20% more, this doesn't take into account things such as the cost of living or taxes. Your statement is pretty worthless
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"grammar" is spelled with an 'a", not an "e"
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<punctuationnazialert>
*ahem*... mismatched quotes on the reference to the letter "a". :-P
*Church lady superiority dance*
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Thankfully, in nearly all european languages technical terms derived from latin roots are used for tenses etc. mostly (although I learned the german ones as well in school, but still prefer the more concise latin ones), so you can re-use most of your knowledge from studying french ;o)
captcha: mustache (do I have to grow one to pass the captcha?)
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Jumping on the "flame train"... All *nixes, aye? No mention of any *nuxes. Linux not good enuff 4 ya? :)
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Nothing on usenet should be taken seriously either. Or email.
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As long as we're being pedantic, nobody worth his salt will ever seriously consider using significant figures in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Significance_arithmetic">real world</a>.
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That's right... keep making fun of the Canadian dollar... too bad it's rising in value and the US dollar is falling like a rock. Canada is paying off it's national debt, while US national debt grows by something like 1.2 BILLION per DAY. Mwaaaa hahaaa haaa.
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For reference: 10 Million Can = 8.7Million US (XE.com)
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For several reasons, actually.
Firstly, there are enough assholes out there willing to spew this shit that you can't safely assume it is in fact a joke or just plain stupid Canada-envy-complex.
Then of course there are so many cluevoid people out there that you can't say for sure if they know what they are talking about.
There are so many near dyslexic people out there that you can't say for sure if it was't a massive migration of typos heading south for the winter.
There are so many brain farts (i don't like the term but you get the idea) that you can't tell one from a real joke.
There are so many eough good yet imperfect second thonge English speakers that you can't assert if they mean what they say.
And finaly there are so many sitcoms, sci-fi books, 30 year old songs and B-rated movies that you have no hope wondering if you are lacking context because no one can be everywhere and know everything.
So yes, you need to end your sentences with "</sarcasm>" or a simple "j/k"
And I agree, there are too many "the real WTF is..." comentaries, so much that I wish this site could change its name to "www.therealwtf.com", i'm serious, concider setting up that domain! I'll make the new logo.
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Next captcha will be "insert text here".
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Trailing zeroes aren't significant, that's how.
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:-p
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No, it's how counting significant digits work. You count every non-zero number, and every zero that's between non-zero numbers. You don't count trailing zeroes unless there's a decimal point involved.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Significant_digits
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Nope, you're wrong. That's like saying 1km is as significant as 1000m. It is not. Accept it.
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"There are so many eough good yet imperfect second thonge English speakers that you can't assert if they mean what they say."
WTF? Would that be "enough," "tongue," and "ascertain?" You, sir, are worse than most of them by this metric.
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It is the same: they're both meaning the fridge is too far.
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Good point. The first thing that popped into my head when I saw the OP was FTP and Gopher...
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Never said i was... neither good enough nor a native speaker! :P
BTW I admit that I got "tongue" wrong but "eough" was a typo, it belongs to the other category, didn't you notice?
The real WTF is that you say "assert" is not a valid word but I have been using it in python for so long! Who's wrong then?
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Americans can relax. Most British speakers wouldn't know a subjunctive if it hit them in the face with a wet fish. Part of the problem in both countries is that the subjunctive is almost invisible in English, being written and spoken identically to the indicative except for a handful of stock phrases. Kind of difficult to learn grammatical distinctions that basically don't exist in your own language.
But since pedantry is good for the soul, let me close by pointing out that whilst future perfect may be a "tense", subjunctive is a "mood".
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"...an oddity in and of itself".
What does this mean - how is something an oddity of itself?
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dons US-centric hat Wasn't every joke?
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"grammar" is spelled with two "a", not an "e"
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<pedantryalert>
If we're all going to be so very pedantric: yes, it IS only English speakers who butcher English like this; it's hard to butcher a language if you don't speak it. You probably meant "it is only native English speakers that butcher English in this fashion." Leaving out, of course, the fashion in which non-native speakers butcher the language (www.engrish.com)
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Didn't you hear? "Should of" entered the language long ago as a perfectly acceptable replacement for "should've", a contraction of what you suggest. Welcome to the 21st Century. :-P
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Yabut, removing the comments and leaving the code leads the hotshots on thinking it's potentially salvagable. Well, the PHB would fall for it, anyway.
[I wonder why the captcha's aren't intentionally misspelled.]
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s/english/English/
If you're going to point fingers, you'd better be good at it. Some of us are always going to be better. BTW, Preview and proofreading are your friends.
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management/work process
Which one of those is this:
Private Sub Form_Close()
'why is this still saving?
save_data()
End Sub
"Management/work process" (HR/Interview fsckup) or "pure technical" ("I see you have Unix on your resume. Ever used it?").
It's tough to tell sometimes.
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hi
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Assholes who sabotage projects when they're going to be laid off have undoubtedly destroyed significant progress.