|
|
Surmise and conjecture can both be used as nouns or verbs.
|
|
|
|
|
PIEBALDconsult wrote: But what do you get when you surmise?
You get a surmisal.
PIEBALDconsult wrote: How does one make a conjecture?
You get a conjective.
Those are the noun versions.
Spread them around on the Internet far and wide and they'll get included in the OED (eventually).
I mean a few years ago canceled was speeled with one l and now they do it with two cancelled.
Also, the dictionary finally gave up on irregardless and just made it mean the same thing as regardless.
Don't even start on flammable and inflammable.
Also people send me email and say, "please see the below chart". Which we all know is wrong.
They should be saying "please see the chart below".
English is quite pliable. Just keep pressing on it and it'll bend to your ways. 
|
|
|
|
|
Don't you just love it when non-scientific sunshines write about highly technical issues? According to this article the speed of light is 186,000 MPH.  NO! Sunshine - it's about 186,000 miles per SECOND! More accurately it is 670,616,629 MPH!
Physicists Break the Speed of Light Using Plasma in New Experiment[^]
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
|
|
|
|
|
It's msn.com. What do you expect, intelligence?
|
|
|
|
|
Since MSN almost certainly chooses news articles to re-publish using an AI, it is proof that AIs can be Artificially Dumb too.
|
|
|
|
|
So, what is the speed of dark?
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
|
|
|
|
|
It is well known that dark is faster than light.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
186,000 miles per hour is the speed of light in a Telstra fibre ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
|
|
|
|
|
Cp-Coder wrote: Don't you just love it when non-scientific sunshines write about highly technical issues?
Getting the speed of light right isn't particularly technical, more of a fact you can google in about two seconds per hour (or about 9.46 trillionth(!) of a light-year) 
|
|
|
|
|
Sander Rossel wrote: in about two seconds per hour (or about 9.46 trillionth(!) of a light-year)
Obligatory xkcd: Dimensional Analysis
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
|
|
|
|
|
Love the banner across the top telling me they recommend I switch browsers to their Edge browser.
Ahhhhh No!
|
|
|
|
|
I don't think that the Universe has slowed down, but I certainly have! 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
|
|
|
|
|
Yup! Same here!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
|
|
|
|
|
|
Must be a rumor - everyone knows that the only thing that can travel faster than light are rumors.
|
|
|
|
|
Reminds me of an article a few years back which claimed the distance from the Earth to the moon was roughly 238,855 thousand miles.
So it's somewhere in the Oort cloud then?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
|
|
|
|
|
|
Well, if you can see it, I can't.
Mind you, I have no idea what the heck you are talking about, so maybe I can and just don't know it.
One thing I do know: this is the wrong place to ask, as it says at the top of the page. Try here: Ask a Question[^] - but remember that we can't see your screen, can't access your HDD, and can't read your mind: we only get exactly what you type to work from.
So trying to type as little as possible to save yourself time isn't going to help - unless we know exactly what you need, we can't assist you. Tell us the language you are working woth, tell us what you have tried and what happened, tell us what help you need.
And one more thing ... DON'T SHOUT. Using all uppercase is considered SHOUTING on the internet, and rude. Being rude to people you want help from is generally not a good idea ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
|
|
|
|
|
put down the cannabis
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
|
|
|
|
|
No soap, radio!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
|
|
|
|
|
I'm...happy for you? 
|
|
|
|
|
Are there any eels in your hovercraft?
|
|
|
|
General 
News 
Suggestion 
Question 
Bug 
Answer 
Joke 
Praise 
Rant 
Admin 
Submit an article or tip
