Assume v. Presume

[Trev]

Isn't URI a spoon bender?

 

[Deleted member 473]

Wasn't URN a comedian? With ERIC?

 

[Black Hole]

I can't help thinking that "URI" and "URN" have been introduced more recently than "URL", I had not heard of them until I looked up URI.

 

[Trev]

You'd never heard of Uri Geller
(URI, URN. Nor me. Good old wiki)

 

[Black Hole]

Uri Geller, as in the guy who still maintains he can cause metal fatigue with his mind and no surreptitious mechanical stress is involved at all honest? No, never heard of him/her/it.

 

[dandnsmith]

I didn't hear about URLs until after having been introduced to URIs - URNs came slightly after URIs for me

 

[Black Hole]

Well I never: AvP = "Alien v Predator"

Apt.

 

[Deleted member 473]

I didn't hear about URLs until after having been introduced to URIs - URNs came slightly after URIs for me

I started using URI rather than URL when I found out there was a difference. I believe URL preceded URI, didn't it? However, the distinction is hardly necessary, and I no longer refer to URIs because, generally, you get a blank stare if you do. Only Black Hole and a few other pedants would want to distinguish between the two!

 

[Deleted member 473]

The same modus operandum works for copy and paste too.

False Latin grammar! The singular is modus operandi and plural is modi operandi.

 

[Trev]

Oh Jeez, we are now getting pedantic in Latin too are we?

 

[Deleted member 473]

Oh Jeez, we are now getting pedantic in Latin too are we?

You bet! Foramen (aka Black Hole) started it.

 

[Black Hole]

False Latin grammar! The singular is modus operandi and plural is modi operandi.

You're right, and I should have known that (well, I did know that but just forgot). Not only does that score a high P quotient, but an even higher P quotient for being wrong.

 

[Black Hole]

Only Black Hole and a few other pedants would want to distinguish between the two!

I don't, af123 does!

I can think of very few examples where I might want to use a URI or a URN rather than a URL.

 

[Border]

Aluminium or aluminum ..... Probably the former!!

 

[Black Hole]

Enterprise Car Hire advert: "It's got a u in it" (twits)

 

[4291]

Material vs materiel (Military equipment etc.)

 

[af123]

Enterprise Car Hire advert: "It's got a u in it" (twits)

All this technology and you still watch adverts? : )

 

[Black Hole]

Reprising the synonyms debate, somebody on the radio this morning was using "get" instead of "understand". "Only people who have had a stroke get people with strokes". Yuk.

The problem here is that the meaning is not immediately obvious unless one habitually uses "get" in the same way. This is what I would classify as a synonymous meaning only through a word from a clichéd phrase being extracted out of context. I think we would all understand the phrase "I get it", which I imagine derives from hippy-speak.

However, can I suggest that this usage of "get" is not in fact synonymous with "understand", but is better defined as "completely understand"?

 

[4291]

I think I've got it.

 

[Black Hole]

Got what? Chicken pox?