The New ZBB Quote Thread

[Raphael]

I took Ancient Greek to GCSE level - we had to pick additional classes to take in the third year (that's year 9 for state schools) and I'd enjoyed Latin in the first two, so I thought why not. We went from a class of twenty-seven at the start of the third year to nine who actually took the GCSE.

[Lērisama]

bless you

Now I wonder if the message is code for something like "Hello Headquarters, I have successfully hacked into user 'masako''s account and am ready to proceed."

So much better out of context

[Lērisama]

(Australia very sensibly uses day/month/year format. I’ve yet to comprehend why anyone would voluntarily use middle-endian order…)

This raises the very important question: is the (obviously correct) day/month/year little- or big-endian?

[alice]

(Australia very sensibly uses day/month/year format. I’ve yet to comprehend why anyone would voluntarily use middle-endian order…)

This raises the very important question: is the (obviously correct) day/month/year little- or big-endian?

Little-endian, because the bit which changes the fastest comes first.

[Travis B.]

(Australia very sensibly uses day/month/year format. I’ve yet to comprehend why anyone would voluntarily use middle-endian order…)

This raises the very important question: is the (obviously correct) day/month/year little- or big-endian?

Big-endian, because times are always big-endian, and hence dates have to also be big-endian as otherwise date/time combos are doomed to be middle-endian.

[Raphael]

This is getting even more complicated and difficult to follow than the technical discussions in Languages & Linguistics.

[Raphael]

I had to google Piers Morgan. I think I was a bit happier when I didn't know who that was