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Re: Ox

#11

Post by ShadowBanThis01 » Tue, Apr 25, 2023, 5:19 AM UTC

Is what?

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#12

Post by jpmoral » Tue, Apr 25, 2023, 5:34 AM UTC

> How old were you when you learned that a violin and a fiddle are the same instrument?

Today!

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#13

Post by franky47 » Tue, Apr 25, 2023, 6:33 AM UTC

I hoped to see a paragraph on hexadecimal notation (eg: 0xbeef), alas we'll have to settle for Stack Overflow's [1] wisdom on this:

> Short story: the 0 tells the parser it's dealing with a constant (and not an identifier/reserved word). Something is still needed to specify the number base: the x is an arbitrary choice.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2670639/why-are-hexadeci...

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#14

Post by benj111 » Tue, Apr 25, 2023, 6:44 AM UTC

jpmoral wrote: post #12

> How old were you when you learned that a violin and a fiddle are the same instrument? Today!

Happy 'learning that violin and fiddle are the same' day X

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#15

Post by anonair » Tue, Apr 25, 2023, 7:16 AM UTC

In turkic langs we have öküz/өгіз and likes, and they indeed mean ox.

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#16

Post by hoseja » Tue, Apr 25, 2023, 7:19 AM UTC

hollerith wrote: post #4

thunderbong wrote: post #3

Thank you for the excellent light hearted, tongue-in-cheek, and informative article!

[flagged]

Me too. It was WAY too cute, it needed like 50% less random associations.

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#17

Post by euroderf » Tue, Apr 25, 2023, 8:10 AM UTC

Only "oxen", "children", "brethren" ? What about "VAXen" ?

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#18

Post by euroderf » Tue, Apr 25, 2023, 8:13 AM UTC

franky47 wrote: post #13

I hoped to see a paragraph on hexadecimal notation (eg: 0xbeef), alas we'll have to settle for Stack Overflow's [1] wisdom on this: > Short story: the 0 tells the parser it's dealing with a constant (and not an identifier/reserved word). Something is still needed to specify the number base: the x is an arbitrary choice. [1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2670639/why-are-hexadeci...

Lest we forget our lore: 0xDEADBEEF and (based on a true story!) 0xCAFEBABE.

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#19

Post by arendtio » Tue, Apr 25, 2023, 8:15 AM UTC

Am I the only one for whom the "Bitstream Charter" font family on this page causes the text to be mostly invisible (except for some punctuation characters)?

System Information: "Bitstream Charter" is installed; Georgia is not installed; Happens in Firefox, but not in Chromium; Arch Linux

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#20

Post by pavlov » Tue, Apr 25, 2023, 8:19 AM UTC

In the word "aurochs", the "aur" prefix is the same as German "ur" indicating beginning or origin.

(To beer drinkers around the world it may be familiar in the name of Pilsner Urquell, the original pale lager. Quell means source.)

So aurochs is literally "original ox". I don't think there is any other English word that preserves this prefix.