Ah, tangents, how I love them!
Mar. 25th, 2005 02:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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metaquotes somebody posted a grammatical quote which (of course) contained a minor error (it's for its). Nobody's sure if it was intentional or not, but it lead to a discussion of which law this sort of things falls under, and how to write such a law as a corolary to Godwin's law. That lead me to a page which explained quite a bit about Godwin's law, and mentioned that (apparently) among Nazi groups anti-Godwin applies: the longer a thread goes on, the greater the odds of somebody bringing up the Jews. Which lead me to this page, which has a nice listing of various Jewish groups, which reminded me of the whole schmatte fiasco a while back (and I was right!) where I only listed three groups (Azhenkazi, Sephardic, Ethiopian). I feel ignorant :(
Well, less ignorant now. And all it took was one silly post onmetaquotes!
With that note, I need to find something to do. I can see this taking over my life like conlangs did way back when. And while those were interesting, and this certainly is too, it *does* interfere with other things.
metaquotes somebody posted a grammatical quote which (of course) contained a minor error (it's for its). Nobody's sure if it was intentional or not, but it lead to a discussion of which law this sort of things falls under, and how to write such a law as a corolary to Godwin's law. That lead me to a page which explained quite a bit about Godwin's law, and mentioned that (apparently) among Nazi groups anti-Godwin applies: the longer a thread goes on, the greater the odds of somebody bringing up the Jews. Which lead me to this page, which has a nice listing of various Jewish groups, which reminded me of the whole schmatte fiasco a while back (and I was right!) where I only listed three groups (Azhenkazi, Sephardic, Ethiopian). I feel ignorant :(Well, less ignorant now. And all it took was one silly post on
metaquotes!With that note, I need to find something to do. I can see this taking over my life like conlangs did way back when. And while those were interesting, and this certainly is too, it *does* interfere with other things.
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Date: 2005-03-25 09:37 am (UTC)On the About.com Atheism forum (and related spots), it already exists as Phil's Law. "When a post is made commenting on or mocking the grammar of another post, the likelihood of that post containing one or more grammatical errors approaches one."
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Date: 2005-03-25 11:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-03-25 09:37 am (UTC)On the About.com Atheism forum (and related spots), it already exists as Phil's Law. "When a post is made commenting on or mocking the grammar of another post, the likelihood of that post containing one or more grammatical errors approaches one."
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Date: 2005-03-25 11:27 am (UTC)