Facebook was down

Re:Facebook was down by jacquesm on Thursday June 19, 2014 @05:35AM (#7915348)

Programming use of logical operators and regular speech is not compatible. I agree that this is a bug in the English language but this is a forum, not a computer program.

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Re:Facebook was down by blueskin_ on Thursday June 19, 2014 @06:59AM (#7915517)

I'm having a bit of trouble finding the maintainer. Possibly OED, but they don't have much in the way of API documentation and I still haven't found the revision history for the source to submit a patch.

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Re:Facebook was down by acheron on Thursday June 19, 2014 @08:01AM (#7915628)

Let me know when you find them. Someone removed Þ from the alphabet a few revisions back but I've got a patch to add it back in.

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Re:Facebook was down by partomniscient on Thursday June 19, 2014 @06:43AM (#7915484)

I too would like to deprecate 'or' in favour of 'ior' and 'xor'. Not sure whether A. A. Milne would like it though?

Today's unofficial but fun to pronounce related word is "specificity".

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