I was really hoping to go through life without needing to know what the plural of "apocalypse" is.
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I was really hoping to go through life without needing to know what the plural of "apocalypse" is.
@evacide Good Buffy reference. That was always one of my favorite lines.
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I was really hoping to go through life without needing to know what the plural of "apocalypse" is.
@evacide According to Gibson's "The Peripheral", that would be a Jackpot.
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I was really hoping to go through life without needing to know what the plural of "apocalypse" is.
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I was really hoping to go through life without needing to know what the plural of "apocalypse" is.
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@Darkphoenix @evacide ???
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I was really hoping to go through life without needing to know what the plural of "apocalypse" is.
@evacide Putting on my pedant hat here, but the proper word is "Armageddon." Then again, the original meaning has been mostly lost and almost everyone basically conflates the two words.
A notable exception: Larry Wall (of Perl fame) still uses "Apocalypses" in the original sense...
https://backpan.perl.org/modules/by-authors/id/A/AU/AUTRIJUS/Perl6-Bible-0.24.readme
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I was really hoping to go through life without needing to know what the plural of "apocalypse" is.
@evacide
apocalypi?
apocalypses?
Oh, wait, hear me out on this.An on-going series of apocalypse-level of events - surely that would be "apoc..."
(Apoc + ellipsis) -
By definition, the first should preclude the need for a plural, shouldn't it?
We are now just seeing all the domianes that go into one. KNowledge is becoming a horrid wisdom.
@infoseclogger @evacide concurrency and parallelism
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I was really hoping to go through life without needing to know what the plural of "apocalypse" is.
SNAFU…
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