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Re: I accidentally a scheme

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Post by TeMPOraL »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #66
TeMPOraL wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Proper verbing would be "accidented", I believe (and I love English for how you can just verb or noun anything - it's like Lisp of natural languages!), but I guess "accidentally" can be chalked up to artistic license.

> (and I love English for how you can just verb or noun anything - it's like Lisp of natural languages!) This is an odd observation. All languages have derivation. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphological_derivation ) English has zero-derivation of verbs [that is, the form of the derived verb is identical to the form of the word from which the verb was derived], and this construction is highly productive; many p…

I'm speaking more about language culture, as it's used. My native language, Polish, allows for convenient derivation, but it's not a natural thing to do, and if you try, people will look at you funny. In English, it feels very natural and people will understand you when you do it.

Re: I accidentally a scheme

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Post by _a_a_a_ »

ezekiel68 wrote: post #69

The odd lack of verbs (in the title and the text) made me immediately suspect this was an unfortunate AI submission. Is omitting verbs part of the inside joke of Lisp communities?

On February 22nd, 2008, YouTuber Ted Suzan posted a video entitled "I accidentally a piano bench; is this dangerous?"

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-accidentally

Re: I accidentally a scheme

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Post by b33j0r »

pohl wrote: post #70
ezekiel68 wrote: post #69

The odd lack of verbs (in the title and the text) made me immediately suspect this was an unfortunate AI submission. Is omitting verbs part of the inside joke of Lisp communities?

It’s a pretty common thing all over the internet to deliberately butcher the language for humorous effect. The LOLcat (“I can has cheeseburger “) translation of the Bible is hilarious.

I haz read! Begat treats like make biscuits!

Rosanna, Rosanna, to Parton the Lamb!

Re: I accidentally a scheme

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Post by _a_a_a_ »

pohl wrote: post #70
ezekiel68 wrote: post #69

The odd lack of verbs (in the title and the text) made me immediately suspect this was an unfortunate AI submission. Is omitting verbs part of the inside joke of Lisp communities?

It’s a pretty common thing all over the internet to deliberately butcher the language for humorous effect. The LOLcat (“I can has cheeseburger “) translation of the Bible is hilarious.

Bloody hell, there go a few hours. Thanks for that (somehow both sarcastically and not).

https://web.archive.org/web/20190327161227/http://www.lolcat...

Re: I accidentally a scheme

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Post by fanf2 »

frognumber wrote: post #68
simiones wrote: post #52

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> I learned about S-types, which were to Lisp what JSON is to JavaScript. Do you mean s-expressions here (sexps), or is there also a thing called s-types that I've been missing?

Neither. * I meant s-types. * There is no such thing. The problem, as Clinton: "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is." S-types WERE a thing, but never a major one. I ran across them as a high school student on a random research project at a university as a summer internship of some kind. They were used by a handful of research groups for some data interchange format. Literally the only person who would…

Sounds a bit like the S-expression syntax that was developed for SPKI/SDSI in the 1990s. I am surprised to find that the old spec has been revived after over 25 years https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-rivest-sexp/

Re: I accidentally a scheme

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Post by MereInterest »

vore wrote: post #26
emmanueloga_ wrote: post #24

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The verb seems to be "a". Does he regularly a scheme? Or did he do it in the past? Both!

The verb is "accidentally", actually!

If I were diagramming it, I think I’d still label “accidentally” as an adverb, but would note that the corresponding verb has been omitted. It’s the written equivalent of hearing “Oh my, there’s a gigantic blocking the road.” The unknown word blocked by the radio static is still the noun, we just don’t know what it is.
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