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Re: The New ZBB Quote Thread

Posted: Sat Oct 26, 2024 4:56 am
by Raphael
Ketsuban wrote: Sat Oct 26, 2024 4:51 am 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.

Re: The New ZBB Quote Thread

Posted: Sat Oct 26, 2024 12:42 pm
by Lērisama
Raphael wrote: Sat Oct 26, 2024 11:28 am
keenir wrote: Sat Oct 26, 2024 10:59 am

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

Re: The New ZBB Quote Thread

Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2024 3:07 pm
by Lērisama
bradrn wrote: Tue Oct 29, 2024 4:56 am (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?

Re: The New ZBB Quote Thread

Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2024 3:35 pm
by alice
Lērisama wrote: Tue Oct 29, 2024 3:07 pm
bradrn wrote: Tue Oct 29, 2024 4:56 am (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.

Re: The New ZBB Quote Thread

Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2024 3:59 pm
by Travis B.
Lērisama wrote: Tue Oct 29, 2024 3:07 pm
bradrn wrote: Tue Oct 29, 2024 4:56 am (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.

Re: The New ZBB Quote Thread

Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2024 4:14 pm
by Raphael
This is getting even more complicated and difficult to follow than the technical discussions in Languages & Linguistics.

Re: The New ZBB Quote Thread

Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2024 11:01 am
by Raphael
Ares Land wrote: Wed Oct 30, 2024 9:49 am
I had to google Piers Morgan. I think I was a bit happier when I didn't know who that was :)

Re: The New ZBB Quote Thread

Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2024 7:11 pm
by bradrn
Darren wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2024 7:08 pm So here's the phoneme inventory:



I hope you enjoyed that.