"James became a fan of Doctor Who."

Um, actually no, James was a fan of Doctor Who all along. It's just that 
he only just pressed the button to tell FB about it. :-P



"You like this."

Yes, I know. That's why I pressed the "like" button. And WTF does 
"unlike" mean, anyway?! Where did you learn grammar?



"Kate did something to you. Click here to find out what."

Um... do I even want to?



"You have 3 pending kidnap requests."

In what universe... kidnap *request*? Somebody is *requesting* to kidnap 
me? WTF??



"Robert and Tim are now friends."

Again... no, they've been friends since college. They only just linked 
their profiles on FB, you fool.



"Alex just ate popcorn with you."

Um, no, I'm pretty sure Alex did *not* just eat popcorn with me. :-P

(And I'm not a spoon!)



DISCLAIMER: Yes, I *know* what these are supposed to mean. But 
seriously, does anybody else think this usage of English is highly random??

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:)

I'm amused at how so many people become fan of something very unlikeable. 
For example, here in Belgium internetconnections are waaaay too expensive. 
Now a couple of my facebookfriends apparantly became a fan of that:
"[names removed] became fans of INTERNET IN BELGIE IS TE DUUR!"
(translated: "... became fans of INTERNET IN BELGIUM IS TOO EXPENSIVE!")

or becoming a fan of things like "I don't smoke"... I doubt that's what they 
mean... they might be a fan of non-smokers, but I highly doubt that they're 
a fan of the fact that the writer, the 'I' (whoever that is) doesn't smoke.

strange world we're living in...

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Invisible wrote:
> Yes, I know. That's why I pressed the "like" button. And WTF does 
> "unlike" mean, anyway?! Where did you learn grammar?

Unlike.  Dissimilar.  See also: "A fish is unlike a tricycle."

--
Tim Cook
http://empyrean.freesitespace.net

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Tim Cook wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>> Yes, I know. That's why I pressed the "like" button. And WTF does 
>> "unlike" mean, anyway?! Where did you learn grammar?
> 
> Unlike.  Dissimilar.  See also: "A fish is unlike a tricycle."

That's an adjective, or something. Facebook uses it as a verb.

-- 
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     Is God willing to prevent phrogams, but not able?
       Then he is not omnipotent.
     Is he able, but not willing, to prevent phrogams?
       Then he is malevolent.

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Zeger Knaepen wrote:
> I'm amused at how so many people become fan of something very unlikeable.
> For example, here in Belgium internetconnections are waaaay too expensive.
> Now a couple of my facebookfriends apparantly became a fan of that:
> "[names removed] became fans of INTERNET IN BELGIE IS TE DUUR!"
> (translated: "... became fans of INTERNET IN BELGIUM IS TOO EXPENSIVE!")
> 
> or becoming a fan of things like "I don't smoke"... I doubt that's what
> they mean... they might be a fan of non-smokers, but I highly doubt that
> they're a fan of the fact that the writer, the 'I' (whoever that is)
> doesn't smoke.

You know that's actually not following Facebook rules? Those should have 
been *groups* (which you join), not pages (which you become a fan of).

I can't make a Page for "POV-Ray" for people to become fans of. Someone from 
the POV team has to do it, or I'll be violating the terms of service. And a 
page called "I don't smoke" just doesn't make sense.

However, the vast majority of users are largely unaware of the difference 
and use pages and groups interchangably. Despite the fact that creating a 
page makes you write your full name as a signature, to say that you are a 
rightful representative of the subject matter of the page.

Users Don't Read.

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Tim Cook <z99### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
> > Yes, I know. That's why I pressed the "like" button. And WTF does
> > "unlike" mean, anyway?! Where did you learn grammar?
>
> Unlike.  Dissimilar.  See also: "A fish is unlike a tricycle."
>

That's the one thing that makes perfect sense.  The action is equivalent to
"undoing a 'like' marker."  It is not saying "I dislike."


POV-Ray users group:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2232187388&ref=search&sid=559306695.3986463998..1

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>> Yes, I know. That's why I pressed the "like" button. And WTF does 
>> "unlike" mean, anyway?! Where did you learn grammar?
> 
> Unlike.  Dissimilar.  See also: "A fish is unlike a tricycle."

...which is definitely *not* the antonym of "like". ;-)

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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:

> Users Don't Read.

I think my favourit group is this one:

"I was attacked and nearly stabbed in Hatfield, and it's all Kate's fault."

The description reads:

"Where you attacked and nearly stabbed? Did it happen in Hatfield? Was 
it all Kate's fault? Then this is the group for you!"

And it has a fairly large membership as well...

(I don't fully comprehend the brokenness that lead to the creation of 
this page. Apparently it's some sort of in-joke. Nobody was *actually* 
stabbed...)

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Invisible schrieb:
>>> Yes, I know. That's why I pressed the "like" button. And WTF does 
>>> "unlike" mean, anyway?! Where did you learn grammar?
>>
>> Unlike.  Dissimilar.  See also: "A fish is unlike a tricycle."
> 
> ...which is definitely *not* the antonym of "like". ;-)

Quite unlikely, yes :-)

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On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:37:45 -0500, gregjohn wrote:

> That's the one thing that makes perfect sense.  The action is equivalent
> to "undoing a 'like' marker."  It is not saying "I dislike."

Yep, the action of "liking" something is something I equate to "I want to 
see what people have to say about this, but have no comment myself" - 
it's almost like a "subscribe to this discussion" idea.

Jim

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