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Then again, you probably do want to filter out the crazy cat ladies...
If she owns more than 3, then unless she lives on a farm...
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That's simple.
A man with a cat already has a master.
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You can't use the term master anymore.
He has a Maine Coon
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Jacquers wrote: Maine Coon
and technically you can't use the word Coon (short for Racoon) anymore as that is a highly offensive term for a person of African heritage.
So, that cat name/type will have to be changed to something else. Perhaps, Maine Lobster Cat.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: A man with a cat already has a master. Which makes him a bachelor.
Strange. Usually it goes in the other direction.
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"Time spent with cats is never wasted." This quote is wrongly attributed to Sigmund Freud, but whoever said it was an astute person.
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Issat so?
Now that's finally a reason to get married. And then I would get some mice to watch her catch them.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I wanna see that Grand Pyrenees draped over your shoulders.
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Chipper fabricated it with UART and LEDS. (10)
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Don't see how it means "chipper", but ... STRIDULATE? (Anagram of IT UART LEDS)
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Yay! Anagrams are always solved!
Chipper is defined as a buzz/chirp/chirping/chirrup/tweet sound in about 50% of the English dictionaries. When solving these puzzles you should probably check multiple definition sources.
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I have Chambers and Concise Oxford, and neither of them contains your definition. So I suspect you are actually referring to American dictionaries.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: So I suspect you are actually referring to American dictionaries
Somehow I just can't comprehend that they have dictionaries in the US.
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Wow,
musefan wrote: Somehow I just can't comprehend that they have dictionaries in the US. This is the first time I have ever been offended here on codeproject. That statement seems a bit over the top in my opinion.
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I am sorry if I have offended you, but why would you take offence to that comment, are you the person responsible for "American English"?
My point was, Americans had a language (English) but just decided to completely ignore how words were supposed to be spelled and wrote them however they wanted. Which kind of suggests they either never had dictionaries, or didn't care to use them.
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Well, the opinion of someone who has never been able solve one (my excuse is the time difference): If the words don't appear on tiktok or FaceStuff or InstaIdiot, they should not be allowed.
I have an ethnic dictionary with all the words but they are not in alphabetic order. Takes me a while to look up OG's tomes.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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musefan wrote: Americans had a language (English) but just decided to completely ignore how words were supposed to be spelled and wrote them however they wanted
The irony is that many of the spellings and grammar that are used in the UK date from the 18th and 19th century and those used in American English more closely resemble the common English of the 17th century; so one could argue that American English is purer than British English. However, all languages evolve; I don't think that anyone here would seriously suggest we go back to pre-Norman Conquest Anglo-Saxon or the English of Chaucer or Shakespeare (who used many variants of spellings and freely invented new words as he wrote). Even in the UK we have local dialects, lingos etc.
I like finding out about new words (both in my 'home' language and in other country's versions of the language). As we say, here, vive la différence.
The quote variously attributed to George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, and Winston Churchill sums it up nicely : We are two nations divided by a common language.
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No doubt. I would never claim to know anything about the history of language, it really isn't an area I have any knowledge. My original comment was just a joke, and then I ended up trying to explain the joke. Although on reflection I can see how the explanation I gave is probably making it sound less like it was meant to be a joke
The absurdity of my suggestion that they don't have dictionaries in American should have been enough to know I wasn't being serious.
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musefan wrote: The absurdity of my suggestion that they don't have dictionaries in American should have been enough to know I wasn't being serious. Problem is that this kind of comments are done in a serious tone too. So not having used the Joke Icon, some really obvious dumb thing or [JOKE] [/JOKE] is a bad idea (happens to me continuously)
Don't forget we are communicating through a forum, where all non-verbal information is missing. And we already know what happens if you give a computer a bit of ambiguity... don't we?
With humans is even worse (the risk of missunderstandings / execution bugs)
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Nelek wrote: Problem is that this kind of comments are done in a serious tone too
Well, I think that definitely is a British trait. All our jokes sound serious!
Nelek wrote: Don't forget we are communicating through a forum, where all non-verbal information is missing. And we already know what happens if you give a computer a bit of ambiguity... don't we?
Indeed, but that applies to the listener too, not just the speaker.
Why assume bad intent is implied? If something sounds negative, clarify, and then make judgement.
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I think that the demise of the Soapbox has led us all to be a trifle twitchy about comments in the Lounge and to read negative connotations into non-serious remarks, and our attempts to defuse perceived ire or to use humour (or should that be 'humor' ) can back fire on us. I had realised that your 'no dictionaries in America' was intended as a joke; but some of the other comments (not yours) seemed to me (perhaps wrongly) to be getting tetchy.
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Well this is one of the big problems with social media. People too freely miss-interpret something as negative and then never willing to listen to reason when you correct them.
I don't understand people. I don't understand how someone can be offended by words. I don't understand why you care what somebody you have never met in real life says or even thinks about you. People are illogical and I hate them all
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musefan wrote: My point was, Americans had a language (English) but just decided to completely ignore how words were supposed to be spelled and wrote them however they wanted. Which kind of suggests they either never had dictionaries, or didn't care to use them. That's called diacronic evolution of a language and is pretty normal, when the language is introduced in a new place. It starts evolving on its own, the more distance between the points and the more time, the bigger the differences.
Spain came to america first and the "spanish" spoken there is different enough be called differently. We specify as "Español Latino" or just "latino" in the short form.
Back to your comment again, one thing is that they ignore it, and the other (most probable cause) is that the new speakers learn it in a different way or adapt the spell of it to something that is closer what they consider a more logical graph for the sound, based on their previous langauge.
Heck, even within Spain we have regions that can't barely understand each other in the same language. And I suppose that a guy from Liverpool and a guy from Winchester are not using english in an identical way.
So... IMHO yes, your comment might get taken as a personal attack (not the best option to do, I know, but it is easyly possible), because it gives the impression that you imply "stupidity" or "deliberateness" in those changes, but those actually changes are perfectly normal.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Nelek wrote: because it gives the impression that you imply "stupidity" or "deliberateness" in those changes
But even if I was trying to imply stupidity (which I wasn't), I would not have been implying it towards a specific person. So I do not understand how one can be offended on behalf of a non-existent group of people.
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