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Cudder is so busy because

Name: Anonymous 2014-12-10 14:44

writing in assembly is the most unproductive, slow and quickly-bitrotting way to program.

Name: Anonymous 2014-12-10 14:46

Has Cudder ever delivered something?
I don't remember he ever finishing a single project.

Name: Anonymous 2014-12-10 14:59

>>2
Has Cudder ever delivered anything?
I don't remember him ever finishing a single project.

Name: Anonymous 2014-12-10 15:09

>>3
The second correction is fine; the first correction is nitpicking since "something" is just as valid as "anything."

Also, great contribution to the thread.

Name: Anonymous 2014-12-10 15:12

>>3
Thanks for teaching me! I won't make these mistakes again.

Name: Anonymous 2014-12-10 15:14

>>4
"Something" and "anything" are not equivalent. The former is used in affirmative statements, the latter is used in questions and negations. Here are some examples:

I think I saw something move.
Did you see anything?
Nope, on second thought, I didn't see anything.

Yes, I understand how important grammar is, thanks.

Name: Anonymous 2014-12-10 15:49

>>6
Thanks for the teaching of the grammar!
The mistakes of not happening in the tomorrow maybe.

Name: Anonymous 2014-12-10 15:56

>>6
I didn't say they were equivalent, I said it was also valid.

"Something" certainly can be used in questions. Have you never heard any of the following constructions used?

Is there something I can do for you?
Did he own something of value?

I'll grant you it's less common for "something" to be used in negation. There really *is* no real distinguishing something and anything. It isn't a definitive "use something here, anything there". The difference depends on context. Anything is more infinite, while something is more limited.

Besides, I will always takes a descriptivist approach.

Name: Anonymous 2014-12-10 16:23

Is there anything I can do for you?
Did he own anything of value?

Now it's correct.

Name: Anonymous 2014-12-10 16:27

>>8
Learn more here:
http://www.ecenglish.com/learnenglish/lessons/anything-nothing-something-everything

Also some advice for the future: do not make mistakes just because someone else makes them. Whenever in doubt, learn the right way, and use it exclusively.

Name: Anonymous 2014-12-10 16:31

>>8,9
"Something" and "anything" mean similar things when asking a question, but they're still not quite the same. Asking those particular questions with "something" implies that there's one particular favor to do, or one particular item of value that the guy owned. In other words, you're suggesting that you know specific details about the answer you expect to get. "Anything" is certainly more neutral in both cases, but that's not the same as being more correct.

Name: Anonymous 2014-12-10 16:50

>>11

I already said that something and anything both refer to different quantities and have different contexts. My point was that they are both valid, while he's suggesting only one is. Yes, "anything" is more neutral, but that doesn't mean "something" is incorrect in the context it was originally used in within this thread.

Name: Anonymous 2014-12-10 16:56

>>12

You are wrong

Name: Anonymous 2014-12-10 16:58

>>10
Wow, I got 15/15.

Name: Onanymous 2014-12-10 17:17

>>10 15/15 too.
If you need ___ , just call me.
Both "anything" and "something" fit, with slightly different meanings, "something" sounds somewhat more reserved, I would use that but I correctly guessed author's prescriptivistic bullshit.

Name: Anonymous 2014-12-10 17:30

>>10
Yes, and here's a source that says "something" is acceptable when asking questions:

http://hubpages.com/hub/Grammar_Mishaps__Something_vs_Anything

You'll find that grammarians don't always agree with each other. That is merely one reason why I don't subscribe to prescriptivist rules. Are you also the same type of person who insists on using preposition fronting? Or using "shall" in the first person and "will" in the second and third?

Name: Anonymous 2014-12-10 17:38

>>16
No, I'm not.

Name: Anonymous 2014-12-10 17:44

>>16
Your initial sentence

Has Cudder ever delivered something?

matched all the rules for "anything" enumerated in this thread: you do not know any specific details about Cudder's supposed deliverings, and you would accept an infinite number of possibilities (because otherwise you would've narrowed your query, like "Has Cudder ever delivered something larger than 1 kLOC?"). By all criteria, you should have used "anything", so what are you bitching about?

Name: Anonymous 2014-12-10 17:59

>>18
I wasn't the person who said that. You're right, in a way, because I definitely wouldn't say "something" in this context, but I was able to understand the question regardless. If I can understand what the person is saying, then there isn't a big necessity to correct their grammar (the second instance was correct-worthy, though.) I'm arguing because the person who corrected him said that "anything" cannot be used in questions, and then corrected two perfectly valid questions that used it. Furthermore, it was just rude.

Name: Anonymous 2014-12-10 18:32

shut the fuck up you nerds

Name: Anonymous 2014-12-10 20:28

I'll start speaking right when the english language gets a standard

Name: Anonymous 2014-12-10 22:06

>>20
This is a programming bbs. We're all nerds. Also, check 'em.

Name: Anonymous 2014-12-10 23:50

descriptivist
lol, stupid liberal retard
these liberal retards hate anything having to do with being objective and superior
fuckin atheists
NIGGERS

huskel niggers haven't done anything
it's just 1s and 0s you stupid niggers.

Name: Anonymous 2014-12-11 0:39

>>23
why even compare niggers and whites if we're all made of atoms, right

Name: Anonymous 2014-12-11 0:39

>>23
motherfucker. it's -1s, 0s and 1s, you dumbfuck!

Name: Anonymous 2014-12-11 1:02

>>24,25
dumb niggers

Name: Anonymous 2014-12-11 11:22

>>24
I'm made of white atoms instead of black atoms retard

Name: Cudder !MhMRSATORI 2014-12-11 16:00

I'm busy because I have a lot of other shit to do.

Idiot.

Name: Anonymous 2014-12-11 17:20

>>28
You have a lot of shit to do because you can't write programs fast. Because assembly is good only for writing tight loops, not large projects.

Name: Anonymous 2014-12-11 22:40

>>29
By shit he means shitposting and bullshitting about projects that will never actually materialize.

Name: Anonymous 2014-12-12 5:05

>>28
Such as Mental Masturbations and DA KERNEL

Name: Anonymous 2014-12-12 5:22

Stop bullying Cudder!

Name: The Late Linus Torvalds, Jr 2014-12-12 5:57

>>32
show me ur kernel or gtfo, bitch

Name: Anonymous 2014-12-12 7:14

>>2
Cudder can't deliver anything because he is not midwife, nor is he a real woman and as such lacks a functional vagina to deliver a baby from.

If my memory stands correct, OOP vaginas lack the ability to call the baby function.

Name: Anonymous 2014-12-13 19:17

>>34
This comment is so horrible it ended the thread. Congrats.

Name: Anonymous 2014-12-14 14:29

>>35
I'm glad, now we can end this brief hiatus and go back to being the premier programming discussion website on the internet.

Name: Anonymous 2016-09-12 17:32

>>25
Found the Russian.

>>28
LOL
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