I too feel this pain acutely, to combat it I wrote a small and VERY basic JavaScript file a while ago to change this on the fly on a webpage based on your GeoIP location.
https://github.com/MartinMcGirk/English.JS
US, unfortunately. I'm not convinced of the accuracy of the script's list of commonwealth countries. I could have sworn Canada was part of the commonwealth.
It is a very valuable member of the Commonwealth, but as I understand it it uses a mix of Commonwealth English and US English and I didn't get round to including it as an option.
Canada was a toughie that I meant to get around to later. I was working from the reference at http://wikitravel.org/en/English_language_varieties which has three categories of English; "Commonwealth English", "US English" and "Canada".
It didn't really give me enough detail on Canadian English to create a new category there and then though so I left it as a "I should get around to looking this up soon".
My apologies to the fine people of Canada. I'll look at rectifying it shortly.
You know the way to our hearts. Personally, I think defaulting to Commonwealth is sufficient for Canadians. On a side note, does it pluralize "octopus" differently by region? I've always been a big fan of "octopodes" as the plural, which is not really accepted anyways.
I've lost the ability to flag in the past couple of months, for no reason I can discern. I seldom used it unless I thought the story was very off-topic.
Only thing I can think of is accidentally fat-fingering flag on my phone, then a mod revoking my ability in retaliation.
Communities can hold themselves to standards and people can try to convince each other that those standards are good.
It is SUPER telling that the only people that disagree with me have accounts that are younger than mine while the ones that agree with me have accounts that are older than mine.
Telnet is simpler... I call this my random insult service and it can run on any TCP port. It's not as rude as saying "Fuck Off" as it is meant to be humorous and is intended for all the script-kiddie port scanners out there:
That was the man who dandled me on his knee when I was a young boy—the Great Santini. I once introduced my father when I was giving a talk like this, and I said, "My father decided to go in the Marine Corps when he found out that his IQ was the temperature of this room."
My father got up right behind me. He stared down at the audience and he said, "My God, it's hot in here. . . it must be at least 165 degrees."
Haha, I love that license! Somebody submitted some of my software to Debian and they wouldn't accept until I put a license on it, so I picked that one.
I thought they were talking about this mozart programming system: http://www.mozart-oz.org/
And thought to myself "who would ever write anything big in that"?
Apologies! I probably can't speak most of them anymore either, not with a passable accent...
Dialects are one of those things emigrants like me tend to romanticise. It is true that they're an actual hindrance in many cases (in places like Veneto you're shut out of most business communities if you can't speak the local lingo) and tend to be loudly represented by the most xenophobic elements. Still, they're part and parcel of the Italian culture and reflect local history much more than the artificial Italian language itself. Bolognese, for example, still maintains traces of Napoleonic soldiers (e.g. "avec" is used in Bolognese exactly like you'd use it in French), Southern dialects have Spanish and mooresque influences, and so on.
Cute. But now you're on the hook to maintain it, and I can already see the abuse you'll have to take from your target demographic whenever this goes down.
So you're ignoring customers in other countries because you can't communicate with them? Why are you not immediately hiring a native speaker/coder to expand your market there?
Or is it an IP protection issue in that you've found that certain countries (China?) will steal your evaluation code and run with it?
I thought this was going to be a list of all the services who can fuck off, like AT&T and Time Warner Cable, with an API to either: launch a DDoS attack at them, formally fuck them off by sending them a letter or a proper complaint to the correct address, while connecting your social media accounts with the correct hashtags- updating your status. Telling actual _people_ to fuck off caught me off guard...then I got the joke of applying an API to everything, especially if it's easier to do it in person...You should add mailing real letters if enough people request the service.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 183 ms ] threadAlso, please can you add localisation? The word "donut" makes me feel physically sick. http://foaas.com/you/%22donuts%22/lotsofcows
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_states_of_the_Commonwea...
The key cases I think are cheque (vs. check), colour (vs. color), and neighbour (vs. neighbor) and "fuck" is none of those.
Or you could sign up for an open source account at http://crowdin.net/ and just let us do it ourselves.
It didn't really give me enough detail on Canadian English to create a new category there and then though so I left it as a "I should get around to looking this up soon".
My apologies to the fine people of Canada. I'll look at rectifying it shortly.
You know the way to our hearts. Personally, I think defaulting to Commonwealth is sufficient for Canadians. On a side note, does it pluralize "octopus" differently by region? I've always been a big fan of "octopodes" as the plural, which is not really accepted anyways.
Only thing I can think of is accidentally fat-fingering flag on my phone, then a mod revoking my ability in retaliation.
I dislike the way that people say actions are done "in retaliation" or as "retribution" - as I understand it they're largely automated.
Reddit exists for posts like this one.
I used to use 'flag' perhaps 10 times a year. And judging by how mods change post titles, they've clearly - IMHO - drifted into the harmful space.
(http://web.archive.org/web/20070713212949/http://news.ycombi...)
Which on there are particularly good, or particularly bad?
It is SUPER telling that the only people that disagree with me have accounts that are younger than mine while the ones that agree with me have accounts that are older than mine.
In case anyone without telnet wants to see: here are 46 insults from that telnet service. http://pastebin.com/6SP2PucG
I'm partial to "Your IQ is the same as the temperature in this room. And it's cold in here."
That was the man who dandled me on his knee when I was a young boy—the Great Santini. I once introduced my father when I was giving a talk like this, and I said, "My father decided to go in the Marine Corps when he found out that his IQ was the temperature of this room."
My father got up right behind me. He stared down at the audience and he said, "My God, it's hot in here. . . it must be at least 165 degrees."
35 centigrade degrees is very hot.
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host
Edit: This works until 3:30 PM today (East Coast USA time):
e.g. /shakespeare/Falstaff/Prince%20Henry returns 'Falstaff, Thou clay-brained guts, thou knotty-pated fool, thou whoreson obscene greasy tallow-catch! - Prince Henry'
Not quite as classy, though.
http://www.wtfpl.net/
http://hugeurl.com/
I thought they were talking about this mozart programming system: http://www.mozart-oz.org/ And thought to myself "who would ever write anything big in that"?
Dialects are one of those things emigrants like me tend to romanticise. It is true that they're an actual hindrance in many cases (in places like Veneto you're shut out of most business communities if you can't speak the local lingo) and tend to be loudly represented by the most xenophobic elements. Still, they're part and parcel of the Italian culture and reflect local history much more than the artificial Italian language itself. Bolognese, for example, still maintains traces of Napoleonic soldiers (e.g. "avec" is used in Bolognese exactly like you'd use it in French), Southern dialects have Spanish and mooresque influences, and so on.
I've been telling people to do me a service and fuck off for years!
Or is it an IP protection issue in that you've found that certain countries (China?) will steal your evaluation code and run with it?
This calls for a standard! The Fuck-Off Protocol, or FOP, will soon have an rfc, a mailing list, and three incompatible implementations.