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Spike's Bitches 23: We've mastered the power of positive giving up.  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


Betsy HP - Apr 22, 2005 10:51:23 am PDT #5198 of 10001
If I only had a brain...

In formal logic, you use a V for "or" (latin Vel), an upside-down V for "and" (drunk Latin or possibly Australian logician).

I'm betting that really soon the logicians give up and use the symbols the computer scientists mostly use, | (or) and & (and). The typewriter triumphs again!


§ ita § - Apr 22, 2005 10:53:22 am PDT #5199 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

In at least one of my classes, we used . for either and or or. Don't remember.

But I hope that they don't switch to | & &, just because | is damned hard to read quickly and accurately.


-t - Apr 22, 2005 10:53:39 am PDT #5200 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I just hope they keep the "such that" and "for all" and "there exists" symbols, because I lurve them. I wish they were on keyboards so I could throw them into every single thing I write.

(edited because, while exits exist, I don't know the symbol for them being there, other than EXIT)


Steph L. - Apr 22, 2005 10:54:12 am PDT #5201 of 10001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

people with many more academic degrees than I have are the people who made the decision

But they are nowhere near as Tep-alicious as you are. So you should prevail.

I think so, too! However, they don't accept that reasoning as "logical." WhatEV. Like "logic" has anything to do with it....


§ ita § - Apr 22, 2005 10:54:29 am PDT #5202 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

God, yes, -t. I find myself reaching typographically for that flipped "E" all the time.


-t - Apr 22, 2005 10:55:55 am PDT #5203 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Rats, I was hoping you'd throw some handy html that would bring them to life at me, ita.


Betsy HP - Apr 22, 2005 10:56:52 am PDT #5204 of 10001
If I only had a brain...

I do love the backward E. There is at least one ita such that:


§ ita § - Apr 22, 2005 10:57:37 am PDT #5205 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Like ∃, you mean?

I can do them in HTML, but in handy dandy quickly typewritten docs, ∃ doesn't work.

Bless entities.


-t - Apr 22, 2005 11:04:49 am PDT #5206 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Entities, that's the word I wanted. I ♥ entities.

Too bad the ones I really want appear as boxes.


DavidS - Apr 22, 2005 11:09:42 am PDT #5207 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

The Yen just looks sassy. ¥

Hmmm. It looked sassier on the entities chart because it had a double bar.