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Indeed.
Or this:
a field that allows NNN-NNN-NNNN for the phone number is marked as "numeric". I guess dashes are now numbers.
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Marc Clifton wrote: I guess dashes are now numbers
Clearly, those are not dashes, but operators. The result is obviously a negative whole number! 
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Depends on whether or not the field requires all the digits regardless of value. Yeah I know there's a term for that but I don't care enough to look it up.
999-001-0001 = 997
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MarkTJohnson wrote: Yeah I know there's a term for that but I don't care enough to look it up.
Not worth the effort, you say?
I agree absolutely.
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What happened to parameters marked that way that were pointers? 
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 don't understand the reference. 
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Let me address that problem....
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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Your attempts at humor are a little too indirect for me.
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Feel free to do it
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[/edit LINK IS DANGEROUS, SEE POST BELOW] https://www.facebook.com/isaythatisaynothing.official/ [not on facebook myself, but meh] page is a literal translation in English of French idioms or expressions, the result of some of them is hilarious. Did you say lost in translation ?
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(I don't care one way or the other towards facebook)
The link page is one of the worse FB page; the linked link is a phishing or hacked site.
Rage, have you been hacked ?
I'd rather be phishing!
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 Nothing special here, it is just a normal website - verified, and the corporate securities did not find anything. I have removed my post anyway, thanks for the hint. Still a mystery to me though. Sure that you have no problem on your side ?
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The web content was a clothing/shoe store.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Gee, you're right - that is terrifying! 
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I LOVE clothing and shoe web-stores!
I can just sit the missus down in front of one, and she's off my back, for a while!
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French Speakers Out There . . .
. . . the language is dying - I suggest you find an alternative and bale as soon as possible. Anything will do as your plan be (as an upgrade from your current 'plan C'). Rundi, perhaps? Or the more popular Kinyarwanda? Or good ol' pig-latin[^] - least traumatic change available.
Just trying to be helpful!
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How about Nahuatl? Some really nice words, like tomato or chocolate come from this languge.
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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Shhhhhh! Don't let them find out about it.
Let's not give them a chance to ruin tomato or chocolate!
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Let's not give them a chance to ruin tomato or chocolate!
They already did:
Tomato ==> tomate
Chocolate ==> chocolat
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I do not hear them.
I will not hear them.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: French Speakers Out There . . .
. . . the language is dying - I suggest you find an alternative and bale as soon as possible.
There's already a rather viable alternative.
My folks watch the news in French (they live in Eastern Ontario, right across the border from Quebec), and it always amuses me that TVA Nouvelles (their biggest news broadcaster) has been running commercials for years from some company that teaches English.
One commercial shows some 30-something woman getting home and listening to her training material on her phone, which starts off with some basics like "I have a car" (the running joke being that every time the commercial comes on, it's a competition to determine who's going to be the first one to shout "I HAVE A CAR!").
I find it appalling that, this being a bilingual country, Quebecers have to resort to private companies to teach them basic stuff that like.
In another commercial, two women (same age group) are jogging (starts off with one saying to the other, "so I hear you got your promotion") and are accosted by some guy asking, in English, for directions to a restaurant - first one replies (in French) "sorry, I don't speak English"; the second one jumps in and gives him simple directions and he's on his way. The first one then asks the second (in the overacting way only commercial actors can) "SINCE WHEN DO YOU SPEAK ENGLISH!??!". The point they're trying to get across is that if you speak English, you're the one who's going to be promoted.
I could understand how some older people in the province might have missed the opportunity to learn in English in school - one of my cousin's father-in-law, in his 60s, who lives all his life in Quebec, says he would love to speak it, but that it wasn't an option back in his day. But when 30-somethings today - who finished school less than a decade ago - still can't get by with a few fundamental sentences...there's something wrong.
That same news program never misses an opportunity to sound the alarm and report that French is "losing ground" somehow. Is it? Even if that was true...they really can't afford to continue to isolate themselves from the rest of the world, at a time where they're trying to have a presence on the global market. Learning English doesn't mean you somehow "lose your French". It's not one or the other.
[rant over]
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dandy72 wrote: I find it appalling that, this being a bilingual country, Quebecers have to resort to private companies to teach them basic stuff that like.
That, as I understand it, is a one-way street: all of the rest of Canada requires bilingual government employees - Quebec bans English on public signs and stores, including imposing fines. The basic animosity has been the flunk-o-phones against everyone else - because they like it that way.
The US should look at your example (and also Belgium, and even Switzerland) and stop this rolling towards bi-lingual English/Spanish. It divides people. Speak as many languages as you want - as many as you can - but do put maximum effort to speak the common speech of the a newly adopted homeland.
As for Quebec - it a fitting punishment for Canada's "we're so nice" arrogance.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: That, as I understand it, is a one-way street: all of the rest of Canada requires bilingual government employees
It's not necessarily that all government employees are required to speak French (for most jobs), but you definitely are picked first if you're bilingual. As far as I know, French is taught in schools in all provinces, even where there is no French community at all. Quebec, you see, insisted Canada be bilingual.
Yet they turn around and go out of their way to prevent English from being taught. And they'll deny being hypocrites about it.
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One of my favorite is the expression for standing someone up -> 'to put down a rabbit on someone'. Literal translations are funny.
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