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Should 'threshold' be spelled with two consecutive instances of the letter h following the s? The german language was 'updated' a few years ago for the composite of Schiff and Fahrer to be schifffahrer--originally two instances of the letter f. (I say 'instances of..' because making a single letter plural looks crap no matter how you do it (maybe a subscript would work)) |
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erm, I mean, german was updated for a whole category of things, including composites which dropped letters in the spelling, not just Schifffahrer. fucking english. |
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I think we should all smile!, I mean, you know... why not? |
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I don't think they should change it, 'threshhold' doesn't look right. Phobiazero: pin this topic please |
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it looks awful, yes, but I feel terrible pronouncing 'threshold' properly. all my topics are A+++ p.s. bump |
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rule 0 to being an asshole: use lots of "quotation marks" |
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Yeah, it's more true to the pronunciation the other way, but FUCK it looks so rubbish when you write it! I mean FUCK! threshhold FUCK! |
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=(((((((((((((( |
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Hey wanna hear a ridiculous piece of trivia? I'm doing research with the dude that invented the fucking smiley. |
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I stole the repeated parenthesis form from you, of course |
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one more post, just for good measure. I feel like punching phobia every time this place tells me to post less frequently |
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Ha ha! Amazing! I remember a news article on TV when smileys first became popular, and it said how you should place a smiley in the left margin of any line to indicate the mood of that line. "Stupid idiots", I thought. Are you looking at the SCONE project? That sounds interesting but a bit daunting... also, did the guy get the idea for the smiley from his own face? |
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I have one more thing to say about the SCONE project and it is this: the SCONE project is named after a cake (scone) it s the fastest cake!!! Hahaha! I am going to bed. |
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Yeah a lot of the initial ideas sounded pretty dorky, but when I found out he started it (after I decided to work with him!), I read the email thread which gestated the idea and found it all pretty funny. Yeah his face is uncannily symmetrical and fitting for it.. I'm working on SCONE right now; he laid down all the theory of it in his PhD thesis nearly 30 years ago; pretty impressive. He's a pretty badass dude; I feel like a real cunt/idiot when I argue something (I'm just as much a bitch in real life). |
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30 more minutes of mutiny!! gravity is going up, I'm spearing pigs from the fifth floor, getting fat from the drippings of lardddd |
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if 'threshhold' is suggested, then 'thresh-hold' or 'thresh hold' are implied, neither of which are meaningful terms |
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Q: How do you rank yourself among writers (living) and of the immediate past? Nabokov: I often think there should exist a special typographical sign for a smile – some sort of concave mark, a supine round bracket, which I would now like to trace in reply to your question. he is GOD. how else could he answer such a manipulative question with such infinite grace, such irreproachable arrogance? |
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Fun fact: while "Schifffahrt" et al. and some other new rules actually make sense, so much of that reform is so asinine that a lot of people are refusing to accept it. One thing that annoys me as a dork is that they literally elevated "to what words would a complete idiot think this word is related?" to a guiding principle - but more importantly, there are lots of different ways they've increased inconsistency and needless ambiguity in the name of decreasing it. |
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cool thanks for the good info; I plan on picking up my german in a few years, I'll look into it. |
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skiing |
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