@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 8 days agoA fake Facebook event disguised as a math problem has been one of its top posts for 6 monthswww.engadget.comexternal-linkmessage-square108fedilinkarrow-up1241arrow-down124
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish93•8 days agoThis kind of problem falls under “communicating badly and acting smug when misunderstood”. Use parenthesis and the problem goes away. https://xkcd.com/169/
minus-squaremagz :3linkfedilinkEnglish12•8 days agoon that note, can we please have parentheses in language. i keep making ambiguous sentences
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•7 days agoMy language teachers always told me it was bad form to use too much or even to nest parenthesis… Then I found lisp…
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•7 days agoThis is why grammar is important, and “grammar nazis” are the only good kind of nazis.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•7 days agohttps://lojban.org/publications/cll/cll_v1.1_xhtml-section-chunks/section-parentheses.html Also https://xkcd.com/191/. Also https://vlasisku.lojban.org/xekce. Also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv0QIbGc8i8.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•edit-27 days agoPeople try and use commas for this sort of clarification and are eviscerate for it. With these sort of math problems, the rules are taught early and then all subsequent math is written in an unambiguous form. Language has the oddity of going the other way around where the rules get more complex as a display for advanced skills.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•edit-27 days agoeviscerated God, can you even spell??? Get your act together. /s
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•7 days agoWe have them in written language, though?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•7 days agoIsn’t that basically what commas are for?
This kind of problem falls under “communicating badly and acting smug when misunderstood”. Use parenthesis and the problem goes away.
https://xkcd.com/169/
on that note, can we please have parentheses in language. i keep making ambiguous sentences
My language teachers always told me it was bad form to use too much or even to nest parenthesis…
Then I found lisp…
Lost In Stupid Parenthesis.
This is why grammar is important, and “grammar nazis” are the only good kind of nazis.
https://lojban.org/publications/cll/cll_v1.1_xhtml-section-chunks/section-parentheses.html
Also https://xkcd.com/191/. Also https://vlasisku.lojban.org/xekce. Also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv0QIbGc8i8.
People try and use commas for this sort of clarification and are eviscerate for it.
With these sort of math problems, the rules are taught early and then all subsequent math is written in an unambiguous form.
Language has the oddity of going the other way around where the rules get more complex as a display for advanced skills.
eviscerated
God, can you even spell???
Get your act together.
/s
We have them in written language, though?
Isn’t that basically what commas are for?
Why (I don’t see) not