DrKrettin

A naïve question: if you quote from Dee's son:

 

In addition, Dee stated that he had 630 ducats in October 1586, and his son noted that Dee, while in Bohemia, owned “a booke…containing nothing butt Hieroglyphicks, which booke his father bestowed much time upon: but I could not heare that hee could make it out.”

 

Why do you contend that Dee had written it (on 100-year-old parchment) ?

Agreed - I wish the OP would respond to my question, repeated here.

 

You had to destroy my aspirations in the root didn't you DrKrettin

We all know now that I will need an editor for every page because they won't last longer than a page.

Geee I feel stupid. How could I write: my biography instead of autobiography.

The question mark is missing at the end of that!

I'll be sure to steer clear of you then; I'm wary of beguiling men.

What a fascinating statement for somebody intent on clarification in language! That's beguilingly ambiguous.

Well, I was able to benefit (kind of) from this thread after all. Seeing that Tom has been able to actually drag his utter BS to a point of offering a book on amazon made me think about considering to consider writing my biography.

Would that be an autobiography?

Therefore, I would say that clear communication is just as important in the corporate world (particularly the private sector) for career progression than it is for us educators.

Agreed, but clear communication is only possible when everybody speaks the same language, and for that to happen, some regard for grammar is necessary.

A naïve question: if you quote from Dee's son:

In addition, Dee stated that he had 630 ducats in October 1586, and his son noted that Dee, while in Bohemia, owned “a booke…containing nothing butt Hieroglyphicks, which booke his father bestowed much time upon: but I could not heare that hee could make it out.”

Why do you contend that Dee had written it (on 100-year-old parchment) ?

 

 

And you seem equally determined to avoid personal responsibility for your problems.

That sounds like the response from somebody in the "pull yourself together" camp who has no concept of clinical depression. If you can show no understanding, then perhaps a little compassion would be a kinder reaction.

 

Save your money - it comes up with three "mistakes"; two of which are debatable and the third of which is wrong. The problem is that as soon as sentences become at all complex any grammar checker is going to struggle to understand which part of speech is which, where the main verb is, who or what the subject is, or even the obvious flow of the sentence.

I find any grammar checker totally unacceptable. I'm especially disgusted with those who object to the passive voice, as though there were something wrong with it.

for the phrase "if it was/were to be done" .

That's not a phrase, because it has a finite verb.

I'm not sure I like the way this thread is progressing...

 

 

If it was** to be done** it should be with posters'** consent.

 

 

If it were to be done, it should be with the poster's consent.

Ignoring the more important issue of English beer being warm, lifeless and undrinkable, it reminds me of the outrage when weather forecasting moved from fahrenheit to celcius, when dinosaurs objected that they could no longer use expressions like "temperatures in the eighties". It was surprising how quickly most people got used to celcius equivalents. Here (Spain) beer is either large or small, and I don't actually know how many ml that means.

 

whoosh!

---

 

 

Work for Greek company, been to Lesbos more times than I can remember, and can read just enough Greek script to recognize names, places etc.

I assumed you were familiar with Lesbian dialect of 600 BC

 

BTW - you are upstaging me on poetry concerning the Pierian Spring :-D

Wow - I didn't think anybody would get that!

 

There are different gallons? And those on the actual continent of Europe use the fiendishly clever SI where none of that is necessary (in the UK we are stuck in between with grams of sugar, pints of milk, and gallons of beer (and they are different and strangely big gallons)

Never mind, we are inching towards the metric system.

59 seconds

Is it normal not exactly understanding anymore what the hell is going on here?

It's very simple - someone has put forward a thoroughly logical and scientifically defensible interpretation of the Voynich manuscript. The interpretation has been thoroughly examined by all the best brains on this forum and absolutely no fault has been found with this interpretation, after the OP has presented a clear detailed and unambiguous argument of his methods. This manuscript has defied interpretation by the world's best cryptologists for the last few centuries, so clearly the OP deserves a Nobel Prize for numerology...

Meanwhile, back on planet Earth....

Dang - you beat me to it

So exactly what "lasting contributions of a technical nature to the computing" do you claim?

you are right, there are some cases that some businessmen killed themselves after their business went bust.

I clearly remember the case of a suicide, a young guy who had been playing the stock market and generated a capital of 32 million pounds sterling. There was a stock market crash and he lost half within 24 hours.Anybody in that situation who felt life was not living because he only had 16 million pounds left has obviously lost the plot. It makes you wonder what the hell was going on in his mind - I'd be quite chuffed with half that amount, or even a sixteenth. Wait - I'll settle for a thirtytooth.

A nonsensical paper generated by iOS autocomplete has been accepted by an international conference on atomic and nuclear physics in Atlanta, Georgia.They must have considered gobbledegook to be as impressive as their other entries.

Grauniad newspaper

As far as I know it is a genetic predisposition; pretty much the same predisposition that yields depression. If you are born with it, you will be vulnerable.

Is nobody going to say that cultural expectations are also significant? Clearly there are those who are predisposed due to depression, but there are other factors which affect those who are of sound mind. The Catholic church has blackmailed people into not taking their own lives, but would rather have them die a long slow agonising death than have them commit the sin of suicide. This objection rests largely on the concept that God has given man an allotted span of life to fulfil. Other cultures (e.g. Greek and Roman) had a less religious attitude and generally objected only on the grounds of inconvenience to others (e.g. dependent relatives) and was an act of social irresponsibility.

Nice. Do you know whether that is a unique answer, or are there other larger ones?

I am astounded every time I have to watch- or listen to Trump. I just can't believe that there are actually people who will vote for him to become the president of the USA.

 

Even more scarey than that is the guy I saw on video who said that if Clinton were elected "somebody has to take her out". This guy could hardly articulate words, but he had a vote and he certainly had a gun. It is the downside of democracy that every knucklehead has a vote, and there are plenty of them going to vote for Trump.

DrKrettin: that wouldn't work, as then a^3 - b^3 = (a - b)(a^2 + ab + b^2) = 2*something odd, which can't be a square (except in the case that n = 0, a = 2, b = 0, and it still isn't a square).

Yes - I'd decided that approach was getting nowhere. There doesn't seem to be an analytical way of doing this.

not anthopomorphizing or ascribing anything to them. I'm simply answering two questions. 1) Am I going to eat meat?, and 2) If so, which choice seems the most ethical route? Insofar as I understand how suffering is experienced, I'll generally go with wild game.

As already pointed out, you said "pumped full of hormones, and made nearly sick, hopelessly awaiting slaughter", which to me is certainly anthropomorphizing. It's not kind - they don't like it.