cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3062545

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literally completely accurate

I’m consistently saddened by the changing state of the English language 😔

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your loss then; I like it!

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Do you mean that your sadness levels are consistent among all times you’re exposed to bad examples of this linguistic change?

Should it not be “constantly saddened”, meaning that sadness is caused often upon you when seeing such examples?

If this is the case, I can relate to that. Or should I say… it do be like that sometimes

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I might be wrong, but since “saddened” would express a change towards more sadness, “consistently saddened” would mean I get sad (or more sad?) every time I see that kind of thing. However, my intention is to say more that the saddening is consistent - every time I see something happens, consistently. I’m not permanently sad, but the way the language is changing is usually making me sad.

I feel like “constantly” might not be appropriate here, but again, I might just not know English well enough myself. To me, constantly would mean unchangingly, meaning I never stop being saddened. In this context, I feel like that means my mood is continuously descending - but instead those are isolated instances of temporary saddening of varying intensity.

Of course, it’s just a lighthearted comment on a meme, but I’d be happy to learn if my understanding is wrong! And, honestly, I don’t mind this kind of slang and internet speak, but it annoys me to see “literally” lose its meaning and gain the actual opposite meaning, that kind of thing.

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That is my understanding too.

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-1 points

It is becoming unruly. Or rather the users are.

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14 points

Literally completely consistently

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10 points

Shall we go back to the time when “tubular” was acceptable?

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10 points

I mean… yes?

It’s “tubular”!!! It was even in Super Mario World!

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3 points

I think it was in Wonder too.

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12 points

I am so sory, it moot ben ful hard for þe.

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2 points

When I was a little child I was sad German isn’t the common language (“how great would it be if everyone in the world knew this beautiful language!”). While growing up I completely shifted towards being glad it isn’t German, I wouldn’t want that to happen to my language.

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31 points

So he translated the work of Indian mathematicians and got all the credit? Sounds legit.

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26 points

The Persians, Muslims, Arabs kept knowledge and science that would have been lost during the dark ages.

If it wasn’t for their continued work in maths and sciences centuries would.have been lost / wasted.

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-12 points

Lost because they murdered and destroyed the very civilization that created said knowledge. So very nice of them.

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Downvotes show that people here don’t know that even in 9th century a large part of the ME’s population was Christian dhimmis. Coptic, Assyrian, Armenian, Nestorian. “Dhimmi” means they couldn’t bear arms and had to pay “protection tax”, and also a “Muslim robbing a dhimmi” situation was usually resolved in favor of the Muslim.

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because they murdered and destroyed the very civilization that created said knowledge

What are you talking about?

Are you blaming the collapse of the Roman Empire and the ensuing Dark Ages on Muslims? (A religion that didn’t even exist yet at the start of the Dark Ages.)

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I mean Fibonacci did more or less the same thing to his work a few centuries later, so fair play I guess.

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19 points

Built off it, rather than copied it. That’s par for the course in most science.

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12 points

Good scientists copy, great scientists steal.

Just ask Tesla Edison!

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Edison is known as a businessman, not as a scientist though.

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True but then again that’s the point: he stole some fame as a scientist. Or at least as an “inventor”.

Great businessmen always steal, they don’t have the ethics to do actual work

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32 points

I always thought that the guy who invented the Internet created the first one. That’s why they’re called Al Gore-isms, no?

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Isn’t algebra just an Englishized Arabic for “the math?”

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From this dude’s wiki page:

His popularizing treatise on algebra, compiled between 813–33 as Al-Jabr (The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing), […] The English term algebra comes from the short-hand title of his aforementioned treatise (الجبر Al-Jabr, transl. “completion” or “rejoining”).

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Oh okay, there we go. Thanks.

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45 points

The only correct answer to “name every Algorithm”.

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My algorithms are generally named // Garbage - rewrite when we have time

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7 points

And will remain unchanged until the heat death of the universe.

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6 points

Bob here is O(n)

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