Note by @fastfinge

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

1mo

I hate English so, so much. Piles is not the plural of pile. It's swelling external or internal to the anal sphincter. Well, if you pick the wrong sense. And of course my rules do. Anyway typing get piles did not do what I expected or wanted.

Sean Randall @cachondo@defcon.social

1mo

@fastfinge I never want to get piles, thank you very much

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

1mo

@cachondo I wanted to get the pile of gold coins and the pile of silver coins. In theory, get piles should have recognized that there were two different "pile" kinds of object in the room, and performed get on both of them. But instead it decided that "piles" is not the plural of pile, and invented a rule about a painful medical condition and gave it to me.

🐚 Demotic Parasocialists of America 🐚 @xenophora@mastodon.art

1mo

@fastfinge @cachondo

I guess you could substitute heaps if so inclined.

I'd go with pinecones though, just to mess with everyone.

(Thankfully, I don't aspire to having armies --or piles, or masses-- of worshipful followers.)

Devin Prater :blind: @pixelate@tweesecake.social

1mo

@xenophora @fastfinge @cachondo Or, kittens.

🐚 Demotic Parasocialists of America 🐚 @xenophora@mastodon.art

1mo

@pixelate @fastfinge @cachondo

lol

We are woefully cat-free at present.

To paraphrase my late grandma, "May it be from your mouth to Sekhmet's ears."

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

1mo

@cachondo Bonus stupidness: a sleeping bag is not sleeping, and a standing stone is not standing. You need a rule for conditions that can only apply to living things, or else you get results like that. Lucky for me that's easy to do in my design. But it's still super annoying. We should all really just get together and invent a better language.

x0 @x0@dragonscave.space

1mo

@fastfinge @cachondo They did. It's called Lojban. And hardly anybody actually speaks it.

Katy T @SeveraSnape@mastodon.social

1mo

@cachondo @fastfinge hahahahhha! Yikes.