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No, it's not...really, it isn't...it's, like, totally backwards and stuff...

I said "all programming languages are artificial languages" (see above)...I never said "all artificial languages are programming languages"...

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This is similar to saying "planes can fly"...and then presuming this means all things that fly are planes...obviously not, as birds fly too...

It's not a "good point" at all...it's more a demonstration of some seriously flawed "backwards thinking" from some people, who don't appear able to think logically in even the most basic and simple ways...

Not if you're the "score keeper" and you've just given me a "black mark" for something I never actually said...

The sentence is being broken in two...the next word is "or"...I provide an option...if you're not stupid then, obviously, the latter - not the former - option applies ;)

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It's not "unwarranted"...

I was talking about one thing...and then rpl starts talking about something completely different, unrelated and disconnected...hence, I was merely commenting that I failed to comprehend the "parallel universe" rpl was currently wandering around in response...

It might be insulting to rpl but it was not "unwarranted"...indeed, if my factual comment that rpl is now engaged on a completely different and disconnected conversation about things I was never talking about is deemed "insulting"...well, rpl should stop fracking doing it...

If one IS an idiot, then calling them an idiot is NOT an "unwarranted insult"...it's a fully warranted insult :)

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I provided an account of the difference and a link to a wikipedia page discussing the subject...I'd advise that these are reviewed...although, if you INSIST then I could produce another 10 page long post with the whole thing explained all over again for you...but, generally, this invokes a "bad reaction" from lazy idiots who can't read more than "consensus-approved soundbites"...

Yet, yes, how "deeply ironic" that after complaining about such things, the very next comments are either totally wrong because they couldn't be bothered to read it...or they ask "dumb questions" about what was already fully explained, forcing "duplication"...

The quality of these "short post conversations" flying exactly like rocks don't:

Voice 1: "Well?" Voice 2: "Well what?" Voice 1: "What do you mean 'well what'?" Voice 2: "What?" Agent 1: "Oh, bloody stroll on. Switch it off, Norm, for Christ's sake. It's doing my head in." Agent 2: "Slow night" Agent 1: "Slow? It's rolled over and died, mate. What is it, eh? Is the art of conversation on the way out or something? 'What?' 'What what?' Give me a break."

From the chapter "Valley", Alan Moore's "V for Vendetta" graphic novel...as "the Ear" agents listen in on private conversations of citizens in the fascist state of Britain in 1997 (soon to be done as a movie, apparently)

Verbose or verbally impotent? You'll pardon my choice to opt for the former rather than the latter, even if it is "all the fashion" to train oneself to be a "consensus idiot", in this day and age...

There is no need to be jealous of the ability...you too can write surreal sentences about woodlice at your own pace and pleasure also, you know :)

Eleven and a half...well, one of them is still learning...

No, no...you silly person...

The Simpsons is making a "parody" of the movie, which is a translation of the Roald Dahl children's book...

My own verse above is simply taking the familiar pattern of the oompah-loompah's song and composing my own verse that fits with this situation and the mindset of Willie Wonka (it's the fate of one of the children to water in the chocolate river that runs through Mr.Wonka's rather perculiar "factory"...manned, as it is, by strange orange-coloured midgets, who gleefully celebrate in song and dance, when a child meets a terrible fate...you know, just to rub it in and make the "moral message" obvious :)...

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That's why I mentioned the "we are the music makers" bit...it's just absolutely perfectly done...Mr.Wonka and the kids are strolling around the factory, when, suddenly, for no reason, Gene Wilder - with that "completely insane" looking face he does - comes up close to one of the children and says "we are the music makers...and we are the dreamers of the dreams"...it's just so totally surreal, irrelevent and "left-field" for him to suddenly - seemingly without any real reason - say this that it cements the sheer "mild insanity" of Mr.Wonka's "insane genius" character beautifully...you've literally no idea what he's going to do next...and Gene Wilder captures that perfectly there...

I'm not sure about what I've seen of Johnny Depp's "interpretation" (though, generally, he's an absolutely brilliant actor...have you seen his "enterance" in the "Pirates of the Carribean"? There's probably few better in any movie :)...though, it's always hard to "redo" a performance someone else did and "made their own"...so, I think this Wonka is delibrately slightly different...you know, he knows he can't "top" Gene Wilder's Wonka, so he's trying a "different take" on it...whether it's any good or not, we'll have to see...I think, as it is Depp and he is usually brilliant at acting such strange characters, then it'll probably be "good but completely different"...that's normally how these things work...

My favourite part of the Wilder movie is when everyone is buttembled in a crowd at the factory gates in anticipation (have you noticed the weird thing - delibrate, I'm sure - that the location of the "factory" seems to be simultaneously in America and Britain and Germany at the same time, as all three flags can be seen waving? This is done, I guess, delibrately to make the story unrelated to any particular country, so it "applies" to all kids watching it :)...and then Wonka comes out and hobbles and limps slowly towards the gate...then, half way along, he appears to fall forward...but then flips around, does a rolly-polly and lands on his feet, adopting a Jester-like pose and bowing to his audience...

Beth :)