Obelix@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoA fake Facebook event disguised as a math problem has been one of its top posts for 6 monthswww.engadget.comexternal-linkmessage-square164fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkA fake Facebook event disguised as a math problem has been one of its top posts for 6 monthswww.engadget.comObelix@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square164fedilink
minus-squarejjjalljs@ttrpg.networklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month 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 :3@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoon that note, can we please have parentheses in language. i keep making ambiguous sentences
minus-squareAbidanYre@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoIsn’t that basically what commas are for?
minus-squareClent@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-21 month 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-squareMac@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-21 month ago eviscerated God, can you even spell??? Get your act together. /s
minus-squaregamer@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoThis is why grammar is important, and “grammar nazis” are the only good kind of nazis.
minus-squareentropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoWe have them in written language, though?
minus-squareGsus4@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month 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💡𝚂𝗆𝖺𝗋𝗍𝗆𝖺𝗇 𝙰𝗉𝗉𝗌📱@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-212 days ago This kind of problem falls under “communicating badly and acting smug when misunderstood”. No it doesn’t. It falls under adults forgetting the rules of Maths. Use parenthesis and the problem goes away There is no problem, other than adults who have forgotten the rules.
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
Isn’t that basically what commas are for?
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.
God, can you even spell???
Get your act together.
/s
This is why grammar is important, and “grammar nazis” are the only good kind of nazis.
We have them in written language, though?
Why (I don’t see) not
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.
No it doesn’t. It falls under adults forgetting the rules of Maths.
There is no problem, other than adults who have forgotten the rules.