• (disco)

    So, TRWTF is waiting in line for 2 hours for customer support? Or the rude way they cleared out the queue?

    Edit: also, Frist?

  • (disco)

    @mark_bowytz Copypaste error! [image]

  • (disco) in reply to LB_

    Ah - but that was Pawel D. Last week it was Toby J...

    [image]
  • (disco)

    I don't see why that Ikea one is a :wtf:, unless it's simply that the I is shorter to allow for the acute accent.

  • (disco) in reply to RaceProUK

    So you think that "J{raised-dot}RN{Iacute}RT" is a word in Ikean mock Swedish?

    (Hint: no. The item is a JÄRNÖRT.)

  • (disco) in reply to Steve_The_Cynic

    It may come as a surprise to find out I don't have the entire Ikea catalogue memorised. For all I knew, the word could have been JÄRNÍRT; the dot thing would be a mark of abbreviation.

  • (disco) in reply to RaceProUK
    RaceProUK:
    I don't have the entire Ikea catalogue memorised

    But you do know the Vandring Igelkott no?

    [image]
  • (disco) in reply to Luhmann

    I did not.

    I see a trip to Ikea in my near future...

  • (disco) in reply to RaceProUK
    RaceProUK:
    I see a trip to Ikea in my near future...

    oooh a psychic hedgehog!

  • (disco) in reply to RaceProUK
    RaceProUK:
    It may come as a surprise to find out I don't have the entire Ikea catalogue memorised. For all I knew, the word could have been JÄRNÍRT; the dot thing would be a mark of abbreviation.
    I don't have it memorised either (Exception: "Billy" is a series of bookcases). I typed "ikea j" into google, then watched the "other people's searches" list as I tried various vowels.
  • (disco) in reply to Luhmann
    Luhmann:
    But you do know the Vandring Igelkott no?

    Parents be warned! This toy MAKES A NOISE! Under NO circumstances buy it for your child, or your sanity will be put at SERIOUS RISK!

    Grandparents, aunts, uncles and mischievous cousins: this is an ideal toy for the new member of the family.

  • (disco) in reply to Quite
    Quite:
    Grandparents, aunts, uncles and mischievous cousins: this is an ideal toy for the new member of the family.

    Fuck you

  • (disco) in reply to Luhmann
    Luhmann:
    RaceProUK:
    I don't have the entire Ikea catalogue memorised

    But you do know the Vandring Igelkott no?

    [image]

    want!

    :heart_eyes:

  • (disco)

    Sounds like Gopalam is a BOFH apprentice (including a scripted fill-up of the call queue).

    But what I really wonder about is why people seem to think it would be easy to get people to move along if somewhere is really nothing to see.

    Almost everywhere there is something to see. (see Ninja rule #1) If not, and it is not in the middle of the night and a power failure, there should be a mini Black Hole or some other really extraordinary thing, which I'd be very curious about.

  • (disco) in reply to RaceProUK

    I don't know the entire Ikea catalog either (I also know about the Billy bookcases, having recently bought some), but Í (and the acute accent in general) is not used in Swedish (their extra letters are Å, Ä and Ö).

  • (disco)

    Dammit now I want a Vandring Igelkott. I've literally gone to the website to purchase one. 2 quid!

  • (disco) in reply to Paul_Westerman

    Literally gone to it, huh? On what server is it physically located? Was it a long journey?

  • (disco) in reply to Quite

    I can literally browse to a website, can't I? I didn't say physically. Anyway, delivery is £7.50 so nuts to it.

  • (disco) in reply to Paul_Westerman
    Paul_Westerman:
    Anyway, delivery is £7.50 so nuts to it.
    [image]

    Click-n-collect? :imp:

  • (disco) in reply to RaceProUK
    RaceProUK:
    It may come as a surprise to find out I don't have the entire Ikea catalogue memorised.

    "...you're not how much money you've got in the bank. You're not your job. You're not your family, and you're not who you tell yourself.... You're not your name.... You're not your problems.... You're not your age.... You are not your hopes. But you are your Ikea catalogue, damnit."

  • (disco) in reply to PJH

    Nearest one is flippin' miles away, sadly (Worthing => Southampton). Still, meatballs :)

  • (disco)

    Continuing the discussion from There's Nothing to See Here:

    Khudzlin:
    I don't know the entire Ikea catalog either (I also know about the Billy bookcases, having recently bought some), but Í (and the acute accent in general) is not used in Swedish (their extra letters are Å, Ä and Ö).

    Apart from English, which has no diacritics (I don't count i and j because the dots do not actually modify an existing letter, they are part of letters) (and also I don't count the diaeresis which is a bit of a special case), are there any other languages which use the Romanesque alphabet but have no silly marks on letters?

  • (disco)

    Continuing the discussion from There's Nothing to See Here:

    Paul_Westerman:
    I can literally browse to a website, can't I? I didn't say physically. Anyway, delivery is £7.50 so nuts to it.

    Literally browse, huh? Does the website taste nice, or does it boringly taste of hay?

  • (disco) in reply to Quite
    Quite:
    Apart from English, which has no diacritics
    Saying English has no diacritics is *so* cliché... :stuck_out_tongue:
  • (disco) in reply to Quite

    LOL OK I literally give up

  • (disco) in reply to Quite

    Welsh?

  • (disco) in reply to Quite
    Quite:
    Apart from English, which has no diacritics (I don't count i and j because the dots do not actually modify an existing letter, they are part of letters) (and also I don't count the diaeresis which is a bit of a special case), are there any other languages which use the Romanesque alphabet but have no silly marks on letters?

    I don't know any. But no language written with the Latin alphabet uses all existing diacritics. I don't pretend to know exactly which diacritics are used by each language (the list would be far too long), but it's very easy to find a list of diacritics used by a given language, and it's not hard to find a list of languages using a given modified letter. As a side note, in Turkish, the dot on the i is a diacritic (the lowercase counterpart to I is dotless, and the uppoer counterpart to i has a dot).

    @John_Imrie: Nope, Welsh uses diacritics.

  • (disco) in reply to Paul_Westerman

    Aw man - for the USA Ikea website:

    "Sorry, this product is not for sale on our website or over the phone, check if it is available in your local store. Stock availability may not be accurate on IKEA Food items."

    But Amazon comes to the rescue.

  • (disco) in reply to Quite
    Quite:
    are there any other languages which use the Romanesque alphabet but have no silly marks on letters?

    As far as I can tell, Classical Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Dutch, Gilbertese (Kiribati), Interlingua, anglicized orthography of Romani, Shona, Somali, Swahili.

    John_Imrie:
    Welsh?
    No, Welsh does use diacritics on some vowels: >Genir pawb yn rhydd ac yn gydradd **â**'i gilydd mewn urddas a hawliau. Fe'u cynysgaeddir **â** rheswm a chydwybod, a dylai pawb ymddwyn y naill at y llall mewn ysbryd cymodlon. *-Article 1, “The Universal Declaration of Human Rights*
  • (disco)

    Wikipedia shows ñ as a letter in the official, post-1987 alphabet, which is why I didn't include it above. But it does seem to be unused, or at least uncommon, in text samples. However, since my knowledge of Tagalog/Filipino is limited to "Magandang umaga," I'm not sure what actual practice is.

  • (disco) in reply to Quite
    Quite:
    Parents be warned! This toy MAKES A NOISE! Under NO circumstances buy it for your child, or your sanity will be put at SERIOUS RISK!

    Grandparents, aunts, uncles and mischievous cousins: this is an ideal toy for the new member of the family.

    [image]
  • (disco) in reply to Quite
    Quite:
    Parents be warned! This toy MAKES A NOISE! Under NO circumstances buy it for your child, or your sanity will be put at SERIOUS RISK!

    Are there batteries? Can I remove them?

  • (disco) in reply to HardwareGeek
    HardwareGeek:
    Dutch

    False. Dutch uses the diaeresis to indicate two adjacent vowels which would otherwise form a diphthong should be pronounced separately.

  • (disco) in reply to PleegWat
    PleegWat:
    False. Dutch uses the diaeresis

    Yay. Either Wikipedia lied to me, or I skimmed it too quickly while looking through 50 articles. OTOH, English does that, too, (although it's a bit archaic and/or other-side-of-the-pondian) — noël, coöperate, naïve — so the whole premise is a bit shaky.

  • (disco) in reply to HardwareGeek
    HardwareGeek:
    As far as I can tell, Classical Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Dutch (except loanwords and some obsolete spellings)
    Dutch uses the diaeresis to indicate that two adjacent vowels that otherwise form a diphthong belong to different syllables — that is, that the vowel with the diaeresis begins a syllable. For example, kopiëren (to copy), pronounced /kopiːɛːrən/ but without the dots would be /kopiːrən/. (Its use was more widespread before the 1995 (or was it 2005?) spelling reform, because back then it also applied to composite words, whereas now a hyphen is added between the words instead: zeeëend (“sea duck”) for example, which is now spelled zee-eend.)

    There’s also the acute accent to indicate stress, as well as the circumflex and grave accents to indicate pronunciation, plus of course assorted other marks in loan words.

  • (disco)

    I hate you. I lose half my day every time somebody starts posting links to TvTropes.org ;)

  • (disco) in reply to PleegWat

    Also: een = a and één = one

  • (disco) in reply to PleegWat

    Nope, it's powered by the elastic properties of rubber, or whatever plastic rubbish they give to kids these days. The good news is they don't last long, the squeaker will burst or the rubber will perish after, oh, I dunno, five years or so.

    Got a squeaky Maggie Thatcher head for Brewdog one time, and he kept us awake all night the first night he had it, but he'd chewed the squeaker out by about 5 in the morning. Bless 'im. I loved that dog.

  • (disco) in reply to Gurth

    They're always having spelling reforms in The Netherlands. My father's self-teach Dutch went into considerable detail about a whole series of spelling simplifications.

    But I suppose zeeëend --> zee-eend is no different in concept, and considerably more apposite than, the evolution of coördinate into co-ordinate in English.

  • (disco) in reply to Matt_Westwood

    I think they revise it every 5 years, which is OK. But then every once in a while they feel they have to make themselves prominent.

    I think the last major one was in 1995 though? In which case we're probably overdue.

  • (disco) in reply to Quite
    Quite:
    Grandparents, aunts, uncles and mischievous cousins: this is an ideal toy for the new member of the family.

    The evil ideas thread is :arrows:.

  • (disco)

    Regarding the one on "Fixed issue where the device could incorrectly indicate that there is a software update available", I really want the folks making the "new version of display driver is available" notification message at AMD become TS aware, so if my initial login to my desktop comes from "Remote Desktop", it won't keep telling me "a new version of display driver is available".

  • (disco)

    Luc F. wrote, "That one time I want to work, a couple of zombies is stopping me."

    TR :wtf: is on localhost this could say anything and it would not be TR :wtf:

    http://thedailywtf.com/images/16/q1/e196/Pic-5.png

  • (disco) in reply to Quite

    jbojevysofkemsuzgugje'ake'eborkemfaipaltrusi'oke'ekemgubyseltru

  • (disco) in reply to ben_lubar

    Go to bed, Ben. It's midnight, and you're falling asleep with your face on the keyboard.

  • (disco) in reply to HardwareGeek

    Also, "resume" is a verb meaning to continue doing something after an interruption, while "résumé" is a noun meaning a summary (often of work/educational history).

  • (disco) in reply to PleegWat
    PleegWat:
    In which case we're probably overdue.
    [image]
  • (disco) in reply to tenshino
    tenshino:
    I lose half my day every time somebody starts posting links to TvTropes.org
    There’s an easy cure for that: start contributing to the site, and at some point you’ll suddenly get a page that says you’re not allowed to edit things anymore, “We don’t give warnings because people ignore them — we remove your edit rights for your first infraction.” Appeal the decision and you get to deal with some annoying character who appears impossible to convince that you’ll try to follow the rules from now on, so you end up saying, “fuck you and your web site.”
    Matt_Westwood:
    They're always having spelling reforms in The Netherlands.
    Not really, there was a major one in the 1930s whose new rules only became widespread in the ’50s, then some reasonably major changes in 1995, and in 2005 a lot of small things but nothing big got changed.
  • (disco) in reply to Gurth
    Gurth:
    Appeal the decision and you get to deal with some annoying character who appears impossible to convince that you’ll try to follow the rules from now on, so you end up saying, “fuck you and your web site.”

    Why does this remind me of meta.d…? :wink:

  • (disco) in reply to John_Imrie
    John_Imrie:
    Welsh?
    Welsh uses the circumflex on vowels to indicate that they are pronounced "long". (Sometimes, they are pronounced "long" anyway, just to confuse matters.) It does this on all *seven* of its vowels. (aeiouwy) The last two used to cause, um, issues, because their circumflex versions aren't part of the 1252 Windows character set, but with the dominance of Unicode, that's no longer an issue.

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