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Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash

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Re: Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash

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I've found gender to be generally irrelevant to most of my social interactions. I'm, personally, in a committed relationship and not picky genderwise anyways so, as a habit, I've been trying to remove any and all gendered pronouns[1] from my speech. I find it pretty silly that gender plays so central a role in grammar. It, IMO, elevates it above how we should conceive of it - just one of many attributes a person has…

I've contemplated a sort of 'minimally offensive' register of language where you do remove any and all pronouns (that is, the ones someone might object to, along with all other language that might be objected to) while being as natural as possible so that no one notices your lack of usage of any bit of language (though someone analysing the corpus of your writing certainly would). Seems like a technique a corporation…

> Seems like a technique a corporation seeking to avoid controversy would employ

I expect it would backfire quickly, as people notice their attempts at language modification and this rapidly becomes controversial in itself.

Sort of similar to the uproar over using purportedly gender-neutral language to discuss women's reproductive issues, as we've seen recently in discussions on Roe v. Wade - women being referred to as "birthing bodies", "pregnant people" and suchlike. Which of course many find to be offensively dehumanizing or an example of female erasure.

Re: Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash

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I wonder if "James where John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on his teacher" does someone's grammar checker up in knots. Or any of the old standbys, like "Police police police police police police".

Or "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo".

This topic also came up a few weeks ago. I speculate there is no upper bound. A similar example using "Hawking": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30626497#30653029

Re: Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash

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try /s at the end of "offending" sentence, most people will look at it more kindly.

I'm sure you're great. Nothing against you, but please don't do that. Just write what you mean if you can't handle some people misinterpreting a sarcastic remark. Let's think about this for a second. What's the point of sarcasm? If you have to tell people you're being sarcastic, are you still being sarcastic? Not sure what territory, "/s" blunders into, but I'm confident it's not sarcasm. It's something else that see…

I agree in principle, but if there's one thing internet commenting has taught me, it's that a tragically large number of people are somehow getting though life with broken sarcasm detectors.

Re: Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash

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This reminds me of when Google claimed that the number one was copyrighted [1]

[1] https://www.pcmag.com/news/google-drive-flags-text-files-con...

I don't recall that the reason for that bug was ever explained. I wonder if the reason for this one will be.

Re: Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash

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Just as a side note, I thought /s meant serious. I think I’ve might’ve have seen it used in both contexts.

As the "end of sarcasm" marker, it means both: "{sarcasm here} /s {seriousness here}"

We need an emotional tone markup language. ETML.

Re: Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash

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How did you stumble on Dearness?

Started running through the entire dictionary in batches of 500 words to see if each batch of 500 triggered the behavior, then binary search within the batch to find the problem word(s). Got bored partway through D. Edit: Got unbored. Discovered that "Firstly", "Secondly", "Thirdly", and "Fourthly" trigger the bug, but "Fifthly" and above do not. Edit 2: The first word can actually be any of the "problem" words -- "A…

That sounds about right for HN, well done.

Re: Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash

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I'm sure you're great. Nothing against you, but please don't do that. Just write what you mean if you can't handle some people misinterpreting a sarcastic remark. Let's think about this for a second. What's the point of sarcasm? If you have to tell people you're being sarcastic, are you still being sarcastic? Not sure what territory, "/s" blunders into, but I'm confident it's not sarcasm. It's something else that see…

I agree in principle, but if there's one thing internet commenting has taught me, it's that a tragically large number of people are somehow getting though life with broken sarcasm detectors.

A lot of people have a particularly tough time understanding sarcasm in a language other than their mother tongue.

Re: Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash

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I tried this on my typewriter, and nothing happened.

I tried this on my typewriter, And. And. And. And. And.

Probably because it's out of paper.

Related: how is paper fed into an Apple Magic Keyboard - Hebrew?

Edit: Tried to reproduced with Arabic keyboard, plugged in now. Accidentally inverted right-to-left in brain.

dnA. dnA. dnA. dnA. dnA.

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