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[-] markz@suppo.fi 26 points 4 days ago

If a container is empty when full, it just means it has zero capacity.

[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 11 points 4 days ago

That would be full when empty

[-] markz@suppo.fi 7 points 4 days ago
[-] Lumidaub@feddit.org 1 points 4 days ago

Hence Schrödinger.

[-] credo@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

What kind of “container” has zero capacity?

[-] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Eugenia Cooney's stomach, probably.

[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 1 points 3 days ago

is the set of all empty sets, still a set?

[-] credo@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Does the empty set contain itself?

[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 1 points 3 days ago

it is not an element of itself, but is a subset of every other set

[-] markz@suppo.fi 1 points 4 days ago

The kind that's accidentally made solid or given too thick walls in cad.

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 20 points 4 days ago

"Empty" is a verb and "Full" is an adjective.

[-] mrsemi@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago

I didn't even understand the joke at first because I read it correctly.

English is an adventure.

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 7 points 4 days ago

Every language is like this. English gets more crap because ~60% of the world speaks it

[-] Lumidaub@feddit.org 7 points 4 days ago

English has a LOT of homophones AND it barely inflects anything. That's certainly not "every language".

[-] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Yrah the fact that words in english barely ever change form regardless of context is quite different compared to many other languages.

[-] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 4 days ago

I'm sure all languages get proportionally similar amounts of flak, but crucially it's in their own language. You don't see anyone making fun of Korean because you (presumably) don't speak Korean and don't go to the same kinds of forums where such mockery is more likely.

Source: I speak Hebrew and we make fun of Hebrew all the time.

[-] mrsemi@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Would you like to buy a vowel

[-] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 days ago

If they're as useless and ambiguous as they are in English, we're doing fine without them, thanks :)

[-] mrsemi@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

f thy'r s slss nd mbgs s thy r n Nglsh, w'r dng fn wtht thm, thnks :)

Checks out.

[-] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 days ago

If you watch enough Only Connect, this becomes trivial :P

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Most western languages are way less ambiguous than English. But yeah, every one has some stuff like this.

[-] sirico@feddit.uk 4 points 4 days ago

Me after eating a whole pizza solo

[-] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 days ago

Do you have just the original photo?

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