maths.

And often when I'm paying for something I get money numbers mixed with time numbers, I think a dollar is sixty cents because an hour is sixty minutes. I've done that a lot.

(10-26-2016, 12:14 PM)rowens Wrote:  And often when I'm paying for something I get money numbers mixed with time numbers, I think a dollar is sixty cents because an hour is sixty minutes. I've done that a lot.

    Spatio-temporal synesthetic dyslexia.

(10-26-2016, 12:28 AM)rowens Wrote:  Evolution? You mean when the apes revolted and threw the humans off the ark? That old jazz.

    Porpose creation myth.

(10-26-2016, 12:40 AM)Quixilated Wrote:  ... I meant, why did the question limit it to two, why not five or ten?  That if a hypothetical person decides to undertake to read all the poems on the site, why would they only read two per day?  ...

    The beauty of hypotheses is that they can be any f'ing thing you wish.
    There's nothing to stop you from counter-hypothesizing five or ten (or both).
    (We should leave it up to Wjames and UselessBlueprint to weight their plausibilities.)

(10-26-2016, 07:21 AM)shemthepenman Wrote:  maths.

 Damn straight. Bloody yanks and their butchering of the language.

(10-26-2016, 06:29 PM)Leanne Wrote:  

(10-26-2016, 07:21 AM)shemthepenman Wrote:  maths.

 Damn straight. Bloody yanks and their butchering of the language.

Tell me, is it day-tah or daa-tah?

Data. There's only one correct way to pronounce it so I shouldn't have to phoneticise it...

(10-26-2016, 08:30 PM)Leanne Wrote:  Data. There's only one correct way to pronounce it so I shouldn't have to phoneticise it...

We all have our dialects but I think Star Trek TNG in its sterile future utopia has shown us what will be considered correct eventually.

(10-26-2016, 09:19 PM)Todd Wrote:  

(10-26-2016, 08:30 PM)Leanne Wrote:  Data. There's only one correct way to pronounce it so I shouldn't have to phoneticise it...

We all have our dialects but I think Star Trek TNG in its sterile future utopia has shown us what will be considered correct eventually.

    "Sterile future utopia" -- assimilate me now! If not for the Borg, at least for the food replicators.

Holodeck too...perhaps it's the unrealistic view of human nature. Take the Holodeck as a prime example.

(10-27-2016, 01:24 PM)Todd Wrote:  Holodeck too...perhaps it's the unrealistic view of human nature. Take the Holodeck as a prime example.

    Considering human nature, "unrealistic" can only be hoped for.

    (If I were going to use a single word, I think I'd choose "simplistic".)