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  6. Posted

    Interestingly, that translator doesn't implement all of the attested rules:

    Attested text:

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    NI BOLI KLOCOMSO OUGIS UQUUYU UG IEAL HROUS... - EGS Main Story Comic for 2004 August 26 ("Tedd's Dream, Part II")

    Translator gives:

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    MY VERY PRESENCE EATYC AWAI(A) AT YOUR FLESH...

    It is understood to be actually:

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    MY VERY PRESENCE EATS AWAY AT YOUR FLESH...

    See http://elgoonishshive.wikia.com/wiki/Uryuomoco for a more definitive set of encoding/decoding rules (but no automatic translator). Edit: while the correct translation was listed, the apparent additional rules were not. I have adjusted the page accordingly.

  7. Posted

    On that topic, on a UNIX system, for example there's the small matter of cat, which is named for its ability to concatenate multiple files into a singular stream, but which is mostly used for outputting singular files to stdout (literally, it concatenates a list of files of length 1 and outputs the result, which amounts to outputting a file to stdout).

    Hence an idiom of doing something may develop.  If an existing feature designed primarily for something else does something when invoked in a certain way, that might become the accepted way of doing it.

    Take also Python's empty-slice syntax for taking a copy of a mutable sequence (literally, it takes a subsequence with no start or end bounds, which amounts to a copy of the original sequence).

  12. Posted · Edited by HarJIT

    In my now-lost newbie thread, I mentioned that I was trying to cultivate an androgynous online presentation and stated "use whatever pronouns you want" with respect to indicating myself.

    While I presently do not feel as strongly that I want such a presentation as I did at the time, I am still happy with the "use whatever pronouns you want".

  15. Posted

    ... and I'm a born-in Latter-day Saint, so naturally I don't know what my alcohol tolerance is.  However, I do know what my skill at proof by induction is, namely less than I would have liked (at least at the moment), although I do get the gist.

    Also, relevant:

    Do I win now?  Thought not.

  22. Posted

    3 hours ago, CritterKeeper said:

    I rather like the idea of Pandora being one of the options.  Mr. Verres, too, and maybe Greg.

    Ellen from Elliot would have to be how outgoing and impulsive Ellen is, vs how laid-back Elliot is.  Any question about going out of town would nail that distinction.

    Now, some quizzes, every question and every answer is obviously steering you towards a specific result.  I've always likes quizzes where at least some of the options arn't obvious in their intent.  Any question which asks about where you want to go on vacation, and has an option for staying home, EGS readers will know picking "stay home" will mark them as Elliot.  Can anyone think of a more subtle way to ask that question?

    Hmm... good point.  So, in other words, the "obvious questions" are best avoided; what we want are the type of personality questions which may need some heavy-duty hotseating to actually profile, but which will produce a thorough, sub-ficial profile of the characters themselves.

    Side-effects are also desirable, a particular answer-option formulated for, say, Susan may add, say 10 points to Susan but also add the odd point or two to those of the other characters which are more likely to agree / closer to agreeing with Susan than the others.