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They have not heard of the word favoured (favored in US)?
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Isn't "verbing" itself a good example of exactly the same abomination?🙄
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Isn't that exactly the reason why it is used in this context?
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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Verbing nouns and nouning verbs makes my toes curl.
"Learnings" 😱
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Let me think about that and revert back to you
P.S. It's my pet hate misuse of a word, and now that I've done this thing I need to lie down in a darkened room and reconsider my life choices
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I literally died when I read that! 
My kids use phrases like this, makes me cringe. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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It's ok, I speak only English, pretty much and favorited sounds like an abomination to me too.
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Some constructed languages, such as Esperanto, have far simpler grammars than most natural grammars. E.g. verbing a noun, or nouning a verb, is certainly not wierding the language - it is the way it is done. Always.
Disclaimer: I do not know Esperanto (nor other spoken constructed languages), but people who have tried to make me study it, says that's roughly how Esperanto is. Correct me if I have a wrong understanding.
As a programmer, I feel a certain attraction to highly regular, simple grammar languages. Maybe they are not as well suited for, say, poetry - but Esperanto people will say that it certainly is, both for poetry, love stories and everything else. Let's see it from a programmer's point of view: A programming language with a complex grammar and lots of irregularities does not make it more suitable for providing workable software solutions. Yesterday's New Old Thing blog, How to convert between different types of counted-string string types[^] lists 8 (eight) different counted string classes (excluding NUL terminated). It gives me shivers; I look the other way and use the C# string type instead ... (or even 1970 vintage Pascal strings  ). "Richness" doesn't always correspond to "valuable".
If you dislike verbing of nouns and nouning of verbs on principal, language independent grounds, then by implication you reject Esperanto. (Maybe you do for other reasons as well!). For English in particular, overusing it can be used for funny word play, such as the C&H "wierding" example mentioned by another poster. But as lots of fully established verb/noun pairs are related that way, I will never be able to draw a clear line: These verbings are fully acceptable, while those are condemnable, when they are created according to the same pattern.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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From CP newsletter
https://www.codeproject.com/News.aspx?ntag=19837496582598984&_z=2928472[^]
A study that they did based on California data that compares accidents versus autonomous and humans.
Autonomous was better except is two cases. Although 'turning' was one of those which seems kind of important.
But at any rate I would think in California you are going to want to know how well the autonomous cars do when they have to drive down a road with raging wildfire on both sides.
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They can't work in an open environment.
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jschell wrote: a road with raging wildfire on both sides
like this one?[^] That's a fire truck at the bottom, with a firefighter standing on the road. My colleagues.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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jschell wrote: how well the autonomous cars do when they have to drive down a road with raging wildfire on both sides.
Unlike human drivers, an autonomous car wouldn't go into a panic.
But then, it might get itself burnt to a crisp before a human does.
I'd be more impressed seeing autonomous cars doing well in a snowstorm, or after a heavy snowfall. I guess there's not much of that sort of testing going around in California.
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What about Corpus Christi? Is it going to be able to find the lane under a foot of water?
Although maybe a good thing? Because it will just refuse to drive unlike the people that think they can get through 4 ft of water.
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I had a surreal snow driving experience one time.
Driving on probably 20cm of packed snow on a four lane highway. It felt like driving in an open field.
The highway was fine. The exits/sorties were the scary part; you had to interpolate between support columns.
People were driving at a glacial speed.
Even the locals all stayed home for that, it was just the crazy tourists on the roads.
Not sure how an automated car would proceed.
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I was driving eastward across the Afsluitdijk today, in the slow lane, going just slightly under the speed limit, enjoying the views of the waters and boats. I catch up to a slow truck and I slow down to stay behind him. In my mirror I see another truck slowly gaining on us. He does not pull over into the passing lane, just gets closer and closer. He just creeps to within a couple feet of my bumper, at least that is what it feels like when all I see is grill in my rear view mirror.
So I decide maybe it is time to get out of there. Not comfortable between two trucks with one of them tailgating me. So I put on my signal, change lanes and boot it past the truck in front of me. I notice that the truck behind me does the same and also passes the truck. I pull back into the slow lane and slow down again to just under the speed limit. The truck, instead of just passing me, pulls in behind me again and once again pulls right up to my bumper, but this time he lays on his horn. So I let up on the throttle to slow down even more, before he finally pulls over and passes me, blaring his horn the whole time.
A little later this evening, I am driving down the A37 towards Coevorden, I am going the speed limit, passing a bunch of slower trucks when my GPS tells me my exit is coming up soon. So I pull into the slow lane and nestle in behind a truck so I will not miss my exit. Again, the truck I just past decides he does not like that, so he pulls right up behind me, just like the last guy earlier. But this time my exit is coming soon, so I just stay where I am. Bozo pulls up beside me, then comes into my lane, trying to run me off the road.
I have been driving for over 40 years, all over Canada and the US, and I have never seen behaviour like this before, then on my first day driving in Europe I have two incidents like this.
Are all European truck drivers this crazy, or is it just the dutch ones? I am almost not looking forward to tomorrow driving in Germany.
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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Many moons ago, I visited Germany for business a number of times. I was told most trucks especially semi's used the autobahn at night. Not a law, but a practice that was pretty consistent. Most automobile traffic adjusted accordingly.
Left hand lane is passing only. If you cruise in the left lane the automobiles wanting to use it for passing let you know with flashing lights and maybe a horn to encourage you should move to the right. This is the practice here in Texas as well. Some just pass you on the right (not kosher but also tolerated). Road signs occasionally remind every one of the rules.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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PJ Arends wrote: and I slow down to stay behind him.
As a guess, you were too close. The field of view behind a truck is limited. So perhaps the other truckers were less than pleased about that.
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Best Lounge answer in ... nine turns of the watery star.
Noting a trucker's demeanor is difficult to do from down under the running board of a semi but it shouldn't be that difficult to note the shipping company's name, get a fix on it's street address and a working phone number, and phone in a complaint.
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I was definitely not too close. My rental car has adaptive speed control, so if anything maybe they felt I was not close enough to the truck in front. I dislike tailgaters so I always like to keep my distance when following, and I know enough truckers and hear their stories about constantly being cut off by cars that do not leave them enough stopping room in front of them, that I never slip directly in front of a truck after I have passed it.
Either way, they should not be eh wholes on the roads, no matter how bad they think my driving is. Trying to run me off the road is not the way to do it.
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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Dennis Weaver (Chester in the old Gunsmoke TV show) does an excellent job in "Duel" movie.
Similar themes in "The Car" and "Maximum Overdrive".
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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jmaida wrote: Dennis Weaver (Chester in the old Gunsmoke TV show)
"Gunsmoke"? I thought they only had 1 HP vehicles in that TV show
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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Duel, I have seen that movie. Thankfully not the issue yesterday. Both truckers just scared us and drove off.
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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Dual II 
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I stick to the speed limit at all times, and it's noticable that I almost always build a queue of vehicles behind me, which makes it clear that they would all willfully break the speed limit if I wasn't in the way. It's a shocking indictment of motorists in my country, if you think about it. The attitude appears to be that it's ok to break the law (unless they're the victim, of course, that's different); the crime is getting caught.
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