This word bothers me...

[ScottP]

They used to teach us to put two spaces after a period, now it's one.

You must be young. When I went to school we had to still write everything so there was no such thing as two "spaces" after a period. Then again since I have left handed tendencies but was forced to write right handed, my writing was atrocious. My teachers were just happy if they could read what I wrote at all. On the upside I am now mostly ambidextrous.

 

[The Ocelot]

Sentence spacing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I think TomCatt was being eronic.

 

[Myk]

You must be young. When I went to school we had to still write everything so there was no such thing as two "spaces" after a period. Then again since I have left handed tendencies but was forced to write right handed, my writing was atrocious. My teachers were just happy if they could read what I wrote at all. On the upside I am now mostly ambidextrous.

When I was a gamer some of the young kids used to confuse me. I was a math wiz, -, +, x and / were my basic math symbols. They seem to have been replaced with computers, I guess someone had to figure out something to do with, #, ^ and * besides swearing in cartoons.

 

[kiwivap]

Ohm My Gosh.
Watt (what?) divided by Voltage is Futile. Or at least impeded.
Do not rely on a Webster App or you'll be Pwned by an Oxford, comma.

You need quote marks.

 

[ScottP]

When I was a gamer some of the young kids used to confuse me. I was a math wiz, -, +, x and / were my basic math symbols. They seem to have been replaced with computers, I guess someone had to figure out something to do with, #, ^ and * besides swearing in cartoons.

+, -, and / still apply. the x was replaced with * due to programming, not gaming. When writing code, letters were handled as variables. So the x had to be reassigned. # denotes a number and ^ denotes and exponent.

 

[Butters78]

Ohmage is a legitimate word.

/thread

 

[TomCatt]

I think TomCatt was being eronic.

Only partially, oh ... that's an 'n' ... not a 't'. Yeah, yeah that's what I was being













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[mooreted]

In programming we can't write one number over another so "^" became exponent. We can't us "X" because "X" is a variable:

x=0

Do while x<10
x=x+1
print x
Loop

So "*" is used for multiplication.

 

[mooreted]

Lol, he caught you.

Only partially, oh ... that's an 'n' ... not a 't'. Yeah, yeah that's what I was being













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[mooreted]

Ohmage is a legitimate word.

/thread

#Thread continues despite opposition

goto thread

 

[ScottP]

Ohmage is a legitimate word.

/thread

 

[The Ocelot]

Only partially, oh ... that's an 'n' ... not a 't'. Yeah, yeah that's what I was being













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Grammar can be hard. And quit touching your iPod using a Tapatalk, it sounds dirty.

 

[EddardinWinter]

Grammar is hard. There is no can to it.

Only the strong survive.

 

[e-pipeman]

The best thing about language is that we can use it casually or with precision. If we use it casually it can be fun - but we can't always expect to be understood as clearly as we would like.

 

[The Ocelot]

Grammar is hard. There is no can to it.

There is so a can.

 

[ScottP]

Grammar is hard. There is no can to it.

Only the strong survive.

Wrong. Thanks to all the regulations and protections, even the weak and the stupid are thriving and reproducing in much greater numbers than the strong and intelligent.

Idiocracy Intro - Funny Videos at Videobash

 

[Killowatt]

I still put two spaces after a period, but the stupid internet keeps removing them.

Where I used to work, we had a mechanical engineer that hated it when we would use spaces incorrectly in trouble reports, he even wrote us a letter on the issue. That was a big mistake, from then on we would double space between every word. Never heard from him again about it.

 

[carldamnit]

I am an electronics technician, have been one for 25 years. I have enjoyed this thread Immensely.

No lectures, no corrections. Carry on everyone!

 

[zoiDman]

In programming we can't write one number over another so "^" became exponent. We can't us "X" because "X" is a variable:

...

Funny... I have had a "^" in my Member Info since I became a Supporting Member.

LOL

 

[EddardinWinter]

Let us all make a toast to the OP!

Every word of his ill-written and clumsily-worded premise proven totally false, yet his thread rises like a Phoenix from the ash heap of his feeble attempt at language superiority. Powered by the imaginations of lowly serfs! You have taken his final orders to the thread of "Carry on" to unforeseen and dizzying heights. Vape on.