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Post 1

Gnomon - time to move on

I just spotted a conversation on one of my entries which I hadn't noticed before. Polly Math asked me why the letters in the alphabet are in that particular order.

Unfortunately, she asked it in March 2003. That's 13 years ago. But looking at Polly Math's page, I see she was around on h2g2 recently. So I've answered the question and hopefully she'll see it when she pops back again.

The answer is 'we don't know', by the way. Our alphabet is based on the Northern Semitic 22-letter alphabet. We can explain every difference between the two alphabets, but we don't know why they chose the order they did for their alphabet.


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Post 2

Icy North

I try to answer all the questions people ask about my entries immediately...

...and then I never see hide nor hair of them again.

Maybe there's something in waiting.


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Post 3

Gnomon - time to move on

I do it as soon as I can as well. In this case, that was 13 years later.


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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant

As Fats Waller said, "One never knows, do one?"


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Post 5

Asteroid Lil - Offstage Presence

I've often regretted not seeing a response posted to my edited entries, since they don't appear in my conversation list.


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Post 6

Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor

Subscribe to the entries. smiley - winkeye


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Post 7

paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant

smiley - doh


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Post 8

Gnomon - time to move on

I always subscribe to my edited entries but not always to the originals.


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Post 9

Baron Grim

I should probably double check. I try to make sure to subscribe to entries I've written, but I didn't learn to do that right away. I may have missed early ones. Not that I have so many entries I couldn't check now.

smiley - run


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Post 10

Baron Grim

Yep, sure enough I found an entry with two convos ignored. smiley - dohsmiley - sadface


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Post 11

Gnomon - time to move on

I have nearly 500 unedited entries. It would take a while to check them all.


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Post 12

KB

Interesting! I'll have to check mine, too. Like BG, it's not like I've hundreds to go through. smiley - blush

Around ten, I think. Most of the ones that appear on my PS are there because I subbed them.


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Post 13

Baron Grim

If they ever get Pliny fixed, or whatever comes after Pliny, it should be a default that anytime you create or contribute to an entry, you should be subscribed to it.

By the time that happens, if it happens ever, I expect this convo to be as dusty as the ones I just found.


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Post 14

Gnomon - time to move on

You're right KB. You have very few unedited entries, only 56.


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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor

We do a lot of subscribing at smiley - thepost. That way we can keep up with the convos that get started each issue. smiley - winkeye


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Post 16

paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant

That's because you're organized, Dmitri. smiley - smiley


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Post 17

Baron Grim

One of these days,
I'm going to get-
ORGANIZ-
smiley - spacesmiley - spacesmiley - spacesmiley - spacesmiley - spacesmiley - spacesmiley - spacesmiley - space I
smiley - spacesmiley - spacesmiley - spacesmiley - spacesmiley - spacesmiley - spacesmiley - spacesmiley - spacesmiley - space Z
smiley - spacesmiley - spacesmiley - spacesmiley - spacesmiley - spacesmiley - spacesmiley - spacesmiley - spacesmiley - spacesmiley - space E
smiley - spacesmiley - spacesmiley - spacesmiley - spacesmiley - spacesmiley - spacesmiley - spacesmiley - spacesmiley - spacesmiley - spacesmiley - space D
smiley - spacesmiley - spacesmiley - spacesmiley - spacesmiley - spacesmiley - spacesmiley - spacesmiley - spacesmiley - spacesmiley - spacesmiley - spacesmiley - space !


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Post 18

Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor

smiley - rofl


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Post 19

Baron Grim

Source for "Organizized".

http://manboobz.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/tumblr_nina5s3qgc1u8qzqoo1_1280.png



*ignore ridiculous URL, just an image link.


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Post 20

paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant

"We are people. Are You?"


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