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[-] markz@suppo.fi 26 points 2 months ago

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

[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 months ago

That would be full when empty

[-] markz@suppo.fi 7 points 2 months ago
[-] Lumidaub@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago

Hence Schrödinger.

[-] credo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

What kind of “container” has zero capacity?

[-] markz@suppo.fi 1 points 2 months ago

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

[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 1 points 2 months ago

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

[-] credo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Does the empty set contain itself?

[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 1 points 2 months ago

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

[-] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Eugenia Cooney's stomach, probably.

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 20 points 2 months ago

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

[-] mrsemi@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

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

English is an adventure.

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 7 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Lumidaub@feddit.org 7 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago

Would you like to buy a vowel

[-] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago

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

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

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

[-] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 months ago

Do you have just the original photo?

[-] sirico@feddit.uk 4 points 2 months ago

Me after eating a whole pizza solo

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