Obelix@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days agoA fake Facebook event disguised as a math problem has been one of its top posts for 6 monthswww.engadget.comexternal-linkmessage-square103fedilinkarrow-up1207arrow-down122
arrow-up1185arrow-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 · 7 days agomessage-square103fedilink
minus-squarejjjalljs@ttrpg.networklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up77arrow-down2·7 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 :3@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·6 days agoon that note, can we please have parentheses in language. i keep making ambiguous sentences
minus-squareClent@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-26 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-squareMac@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-26 days ago eviscerated God, can you even spell??? Get your act together. /s
minus-squareGsus4@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 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-squareAbidanYre@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 days agoIsn’t that basically what commas are for?
minus-squareentropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 days agoWe have them in written language, though?
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
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
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.
Isn’t that basically what commas are for?
Why (I don’t see) not
We have them in written language, though?