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Post #198,414 by tuberculosis 3/14/05 1:30:07 AM 8/21/07 6:27:41 AM Reply	I do not think that word means what you think it means "Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein "This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush Edited by tuberculosis Aug. 21, 2007, 06:27:41 AM EDT I do not think that word means what you think it means "Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein "This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush Collapse All History
Post #198,416 by Ashton 3/14/05 2:03:34 AM Reply	..and a passel of other words.
Post #198,492 by mmoffitt 3/14/05 11:26:01 AM Reply	He only misinterprets 800,000 (or so) English words. bcnu, Mikem Eine Leute. Eine Welt. Ein F\ufffdhrer. God Bless America.
Post #198,498 by hnick 3/14/05 11:36:56 AM Reply	Wow! you do him a lot of credit If I understand this correctly, the Oxford English Dictionary contains 97,600 primary words with 500,000 definitions of them. The bot would have to create new words to misinterpret. Pretty good trick... :) [link\|http://www.elearnaid.com/newshoroxend1.html\|http://www.elearnaid...ewshoroxend1.html] # The immense scholarship of the Oxford English Dictionary--brought within reach of everyone: * 2 Volumes * 500,000 definitions * 7.5 million words * historical useage back to 1700, however it includes Shakespeare who lived from 1564 to 1616 * 4,000 pages * 97,600 headwords * 25,250 variant spellings * 87,400 illustrative quotations * 7,333 sources of quotations (including 5,519 individual authors)
Post #198,552 by jake123 3/14/05 2:07:09 PM Reply	That's what used to be called the Oxford Abridged, IIRC and it's abridged to a pretty significant degree. ...though I have to admit that the last number I heard for words in English was ~300,000. To be fair, that was before the Internet and the concomitant boom in word coinings. Last but not least, yes Marlowe, Democracy can be authoritarian. Just ask anyone Romany, Jewish, Gay, etc after the Bundestag voted to make Hitler dictator. --\n-------------------------------------------------------------------\n* Jack Troughton jake at consultron.ca \n [link\|http://consultron.ca\|http://consultron.ca] [link\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca] \n Kingston Ontario Canada [link\|news://news.consultron.ca\|news://news.consultron.ca] *\n-------------------------------------------------------------------

Send a white feather to Jonah Goldberg - (tuberculosis) - (53) - Feb. 14, 2005, 05:59:39 PM EST

He can forward it onto Marlowe when he's done with it. -NT - (pwhysall) - (52) - Feb. 14, 2005, 06:03:10 PM EST

Perhaps we should start responding to all his posts - (tuberculosis) - (51) - Feb. 14, 2005, 06:11:03 PM EST

I like it. - (imric) - (50) - Feb. 14, 2005, 08:43:47 PM EST

Actually, if he keeps doing the drive-bys... - (inthane-chan) - (49) - Feb. 15, 2005, 12:05:56 PM EST

ObAOL. - (pwhysall) - Feb. 15, 2005, 12:23:40 PM EST

Works for me -NT - (tuberculosis) - Feb. 15, 2005, 02:38:36 PM EST

Thirded -NT - (Silverlock) - Feb. 15, 2005, 03:48:20 PM EST

Are you all crazy? - (Arkadiy) - (32) - Feb. 15, 2005, 04:15:59 PM EST

He's interested in one thing: pagerank. - (pwhysall) - (23) - Feb. 15, 2005, 04:27:24 PM EST

not done in every post - (SpiceWare) - (22) - Feb. 15, 2005, 04:59:53 PM EST

Ah, but is the point of your post... - (inthane-chan) - (21) - Feb. 15, 2005, 05:31:57 PM EST

It's hard to read motives. - (Another Scott) - (20) - Feb. 15, 2005, 05:53:40 PM EST

What A.S. said - (rcareaga) - (2) - Feb. 15, 2005, 06:23:13 PM EST

I concur with Rcareaga - (Nightowl) - (1) - Feb. 16, 2005, 01:15:01 PM EST

It's not about the *going*... - (pwhysall) - Feb. 16, 2005, 01:32:30 PM EST

I am not in favor of discipline as proposed. - (Andrew Grygus) - (16) - Feb. 16, 2005, 01:41:27 PM EST

Actually... - (pwhysall) - (15) - Feb. 16, 2005, 01:58:54 PM EST

Ah, right - (ben_tilly) - (14) - Feb. 16, 2005, 02:51:45 PM EST

Don't be smarmy. - (pwhysall) - (13) - Feb. 16, 2005, 02:54:08 PM EST

I said "even in theory" - (ben_tilly) - (10) - Feb. 16, 2005, 03:05:03 PM EST

No it's not - (jake123) - (9) - Feb. 16, 2005, 03:12:01 PM EST

I left in the 90's - (ben_tilly) - (2) - Feb. 16, 2005, 05:57:00 PM EST

Hey, publication bans happen all the time in the US too - (jake123) - (1) - Feb. 16, 2005, 06:03:20 PM EST

They do? Examples, please. - (ben_tilly) - Feb. 16, 2005, 06:44:35 PM EST

Another amusing point about the charter - (ben_tilly) - (5) - Feb. 16, 2005, 06:59:50 PM EST

God is undefined in the charter -NT - (jake123) - (4) - Feb. 17, 2005, 06:20:13 PM EST

...unless declared integer :-) -NT - (pwhysall) - (3) - Feb. 18, 2005, 12:39:57 AM EST

I always figured she was a float(er). -NT - (jake123) - (2) - Feb. 18, 2005, 08:28:03 AM EST

No, gotta be something with arbitrary precision... -NT - (admin) - (1) - Feb. 18, 2005, 09:33:41 AM EST

Floaters are arbitrary - (jake123) - Feb. 18, 2005, 09:34:59 AM EST

Oh please - (Arkadiy) - (1) - Feb. 16, 2005, 04:32:37 PM EST

No they're not. - (jake123) - Feb. 16, 2005, 05:13:15 PM EST

What Peter said. - (inthane-chan) - Feb. 15, 2005, 04:34:39 PM EST

You think his posts are really more than flamebait? -NT - (Silverlock) - (4) - Feb. 15, 2005, 04:59:09 PM EST

It may be a flamebait - (Arkadiy) - (3) - Feb. 16, 2005, 11:53:09 AM EST

Key point: - (pwhysall) - (2) - Feb. 16, 2005, 11:57:00 AM EST

So he prefers to keep his thoughts in his own place - (Arkadiy) - (1) - Feb. 16, 2005, 12:01:03 PM EST

I agree there too - (Nightowl) - Feb. 16, 2005, 01:17:06 PM EST

Also. - (pwhysall) - (1) - Feb. 15, 2005, 06:11:58 PM EST

Hrmm - (jb4) - Feb. 17, 2005, 06:44:12 PM EST

If he repeats the link only bit - (JayMehaffey) - Feb. 15, 2005, 04:24:16 PM EST

completely disagree!! - (daemon) - Feb. 15, 2005, 06:06:16 PM EST

Dude, the debate's over. All wrapped up November 2. - (marlowe) - (10) - Feb. 20, 2005, 01:08:56 PM EST

Spoken like a true authoritarian. -NT - (jake123) - (9) - Feb. 28, 2005, 11:44:37 PM EST

If democracy is authoritarianism, then yes. - (marlowe) - (8) - March 6, 2005, 02:32:11 PM EST

The way you practice it, it is.... -NT - (jb4) - (2) - March 7, 2005, 01:27:21 PM EST

Practise makes perfect. - (marlowe) - (1) - March 13, 2005, 02:51:08 PM EST

And it really WOULD be easier if it were a dictatorship - (jb4) - March 14, 2005, 06:01:36 PM EST

I do not think that word means what you think it means -NT - (tuberculosis) - (4) - Aug. 21, 2007, 06:27:41 AM EDT

..and a passel of other words. -NT - (Ashton) - (3) - March 14, 2005, 02:03:34 AM EST

He only misinterprets 800,000 (or so) English words. -NT - (mmoffitt) - (2) - March 14, 2005, 11:26:01 AM EST

Wow! you do him a lot of credit - (hnick) - (1) - March 14, 2005, 11:36:56 AM EST

That's what used to be called the Oxford Abridged, IIRC - (jake123) - March 14, 2005, 02:07:09 PM EST

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