Johanson VS Smith: The Precursor Challenge!
“What Part Of Living Says You Gotta Die?
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d) is done in seconds if the software was developed in the right language and class inheritance gets you all the logic needed in one single line of code. 
Awesome – some awe.
Awful – full of awe.
Neither word actually says whether the awe is good or bad.
Your interpretation of both of those words is incorrect. Furthermore, it says in the definition whether it is good or bad.
awesome: adjective; extremely impressive or daunting; inspiring great admiration, apprehension, or fear.
awe: noun; a feeling of reverential respect mixed with fear or wonder.
Well, you’re still reading, at least. Not a particularly good answer, but you’re still reading…
As it says, “daunting”, “inspiring awe”. It doesn’t say whether that’s good or bad. The informal is a secondary definition.
The definition of awesome doesn’t include the word awe in it, except when using it in an example. The specific quote is, “inspiring great admiration” not “inspiring awe.” Using a word or part of a word to define itself is circular. I understand your frustration with the bugs in game, but trying to insist that a contrived, trite and wrongly worded argument(like awesome = some awe/awful =full of awe) doesn’t help your case. In fact, it hurts your argument by making you look less intelligent than you are.
tldr: next time leave out the bogus “definitions” and just make your argument.
‘would of been’ —> wrong
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I never claimed to be the great communicator. I also didn’t claim that two words mean something different from the accepted definitions of those words. So, when it comes to words, you don’t know what you’re talking about. I can also say that you’re posts have been inflammatory, insulting, and come from a position of ignorance. You talk about the non-video game side of the computer industry as being the only valid computer industry, which is nothing more than your opinion. You complain that proper QC should have caught all the bugs in the expansion, as if Microsoft or Apple have never released a flawed product that has to be patched. You admit that you have no experience with producing video games and are merely competent as a programmer. You do acknowledge that analysis is your core competency, which I will take at face value. Somehow this qualifies you to make broad generalizations about a field in which you have zero experience.
If this is an example of your communication skills, how am I or anyone else supposed to take your analysis seriously?
You did. The moment you decided you could lay down the law about what I said and about what words mean, you claimed to be a great communicator. And then you sneer at me throughout your post. Great communication?
Do you know what the word “chuffed” means? Cheerful, pleased, over-the-moon, right? Wrong! No, right. No, wrong. No… Confused, yet? See, words change their meanings. Words change according to how people use them. My dear old (dead) dad could remember when “chuffed” meant “cheesed off / unhappy”. The word has changed its meaning over the years.
People also don’t understand intensifiers in English (NB: I’ve no idea whether English is your first language). There are a lot of back-formations in modern English. Things like “For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge” or “Ship High In Transit” (never trust an acronym! ). But they aren’t only confined to acronyms. Try “threshold”, for example. No-one actually knows where it comes from, but it’s not from “holding back the thresh (i.e. straw)”. There would have to be some version of “threshhold” for that to be the case, and there isn’t.
Then there’s words like disgruntled & irregardless. Because disgruntled means “unhappy” (essentially) & dis- is familiar from words such as disappear, people assume it’s a negative. Therefore “gruntled” means “happy”, right? No, wrong.
1. (obsolete) To utter small, low grunts.
2. (obsolete) To complain; to grumble
Dis-, in this case, is an intensifier, not a negative. “To grumble, only more so”, in just the same way that “irregardless” is not the opposite of “regardless”, but regardless only more so.
I never claimed, as I hope you can now appreciate, what awful or awesome meant. I simply pointed out how the words are composed, as a juxtaposition to how people commonly understand them. And if you go back to my original post that you wanted to take issue with, you will see that immediately after I did so, I promptly used “awful” in its generally understood sense. Which of us is ignorant, I wonder? I know there’s an awful lot I don’t know. In many, many spheres, I’m blessedly ignorant. But clever enough not to offer an opinion, because I’m not stupid. You?
Well, you make a lot of generalisations about what I never said. It seems to me (I may be wrong) that I understand words (English ones!) better than you do, and also that I understand IT better than you do. We can talk about that, if you like. But I usually try not to sneer at people. It gets in the way of talking with them.
Incidentally, on the subject of awful /awesome and whether they are negative / positive / neutral words, I am certainly not the first to point this out. It was the late Sir Terry Pratchett who commented about miracles. “It’s a miracle I didn’t hit that tree / lamp-post when I skidded…” Or words to that effect. But miracles aren’t always good.
I experienced this myself on a rainy Sunday morning this summer. Driving back through the village, there was a farm vehicle (a teleporter, if that means anything to you) stopped on the opposite side of the road with a queue of cars behind it. The car in front of me had a front-on collision with another that was braking for the queue of traffic.
The teleporter had a broken pipe somewhere, so oil was all over the road. It was wet, so the oil was floating on the surface. The braking car skidded because of that and came onto my side of the road.
It was a miracle. It was a miracle (bad) that that happened because the car in front of me could easily have been 20 yds further on or further back. It was a miracle (good) because it could easily have been my car with me driving it at that point on the road. If it were me, I could maybe have braked. If I’d not been in a head-on collision, I’d have skidded, gone left, and slid down a 10’ kitten . {oh, for crying out loud, Anet! This is pathetic. A ditch! A ten foot bloody ditch! That slide might have killed me, and you fuss about a word! kitten has more meanings than just “lesbian (derogatory)”. Your filter is beyond belief.} Would I have been any better off? It was still a miracle. I just happened to be on the road at that time, and I happened to be the car behind.
Where words are concerned, how else would you like to lecture us all on where they come from & what they mean?
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