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I am...whimsical today.

Georges Perec managed to write an entire book without using the letter e. We're actually spoiled with our current choice of 26 letters ;)

To be honest, I'd quite like some kind of mathematical formatting, like that in LaTex or similar.
It's a pretty unlikely ask, but to paraphrase Achronos it's nice to want things :)

  • 11.02.2011 8:20 PM PDT

Posted by: Dustin 6047
Troll confirmed. I never even insulted you

Posted by: Dustin 6047
OP - You're a dumbass with the reading comprehension skills of a second grader.


Can someone tell me what's wrong with these two, this made me LOL hard.


Posted by: CrazzySnipe55
First of all, your Spanish translated to: "Door to go to the bathroom, [something that isn't a word]". Just a heads up.

Those symbols you talked about are directly relative to typing words to other people. These words are the basis and the foundation of the discussion we have. Pictographs are irrelevant to actual conversation and would just lead to excessive spam. Why would you need pictographs and arrows? You can make smileys and, look.... <--- ---> ^^^ vvv ARROWS!!!

Also, no math symbols? Oh... okay... + - / * ( ). <--- Those don't show up for you, eh?
Google Translate is direct and makes things weird. And I think he meant "Por Favor".

Symbols such as the 1/2 symbol. Not typed up, but the actual symbol. Also, symbols like (r), (c), etc. Not like that, but what the actual symbols.

  • 11.02.2011 8:22 PM PDT

"You dead yet? No? You will be!"

"How you like them pears? Guess what I mean by pears."

"I'm gonna rip off his partridge and kick him in the pear tree!"

I want Kanji, Katakana, Furigana, and Hiragana.

[Edited on 11.02.2011 8:52 PM PDT]

  • 11.02.2011 8:51 PM PDT

Posted by: H0FFman J
If only the euro sign was typable :-/
I'm sure you can't do that becuase a Euro has no worth.

  • 11.02.2011 9:04 PM PDT

We believe that the universe is unbounded: this is not the same as infinite: the 2-D surface of a sphere, wrapped around a 3rd dimension, has a finite size, but has no end. If you start off in a given direction on the surface of a sphere, you could return to your start point without having to turn around -- you simply go all the way around. But wouldn't that mean the universe has an escape velocity like the earth?


Posted by: Guscon
Georges Perec managed to write an entire book without using the letter e. We're actually spoiled with our current choice of 26 letters ;)

To be honest, I'd quite like some kind of mathematical formatting, like that in LaTex or similar.
It's a pretty unlikely ask, but to paraphrase Achronos it's nice to want things :)


It would be much easier to use extended characters than to use e^2x-1(x(Sigma)o34t/t^2. If they allowed mathematical symbols at least, then I would feel compelled enough to make mathematical threads.

~B2

  • 11.03.2011 1:19 AM PDT
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Posted by: x Foman123 x
Spanish lessons aside (and stop arguing about that, please), obviously only the Web Team can fully answer this question. But my guess is that the short answer is because this is a discussion forum, and in the course of normal discussion, extended characters are useless. They are only used for purposeless and distracting shorthand, ASCII art, and gimmick posts such as the upside-down text flipper.
And occasionally for dodging the swear filter, and for making obnoxious thread titles.

  • 11.03.2011 6:44 AM PDT
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Why are you reading my signature? Who actually opens these things and reads them!

And as always, SEND ME A PM. Please. Or really bad things will happen to you.

Posted by: x Foman123 x
and gimmick posts such as the upside-down text flipper.

Woah, woah, woah. Wouldn't an upside-down text flipper make standard text? That needs to be gotten rid of immediately! That stuff is everywhere in the forums!

:P

  • 11.03.2011 7:26 AM PDT

Maybe because some of us want to read posts instead of being raped by random ass symbols? This is a board where people write and people read. Nothing more than that.

  • 11.03.2011 3:51 PM PDT

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