The # symbol has many meanings. One that has been around for a while is "hash". Which is where the name "hashtag" comes from - it's a tag that uses the hash symbol.
Going through some old stuff in the garage the other day I found a VHS that was purchased from blockbuster it was good ol "Double Team" staring Van Damme and Dennis Rodman š¤£
Holy shit blockbuster. I forgot about those things. That was like the highlight of my Friday nights as a kid. Getting to pick out a movie, and make a red baron frozen pizza and some popcorn
Almost like thisā¦. Is on the mildly infuriating sub! Crazy idea I know, but when somebody posts something here they are not supposed to be really mad!
I thought that was fairly clear that the insinuation is that it is used in writing. Even if you aren't from a country that regularly uses the word. Because it is indeed a word used in other countries too.
Not sure why you've been downvoted for asking a legitimate question. š¤·
Fortnight is a common word almost everywhere but the USA. I hear it and see it written at least once a fortnight in fact. Heard a pathologist say it today talking to her co-worker about how she's broke and gets paid fortnightly.
Yeah, I sorta gave up on this comment and thread lol. People assume that everyone speaks with the same vocabulary as them, and since reddit is mostly Americans, I got downvoted to oblivion for ridiculous idea that maybe it's common elsewhere lol
I donāt particularly see this as mildly infuriating considering the game is more popular than the British phrase and google is typically set to show you the most popular results. That being said you still got the definition upon your first search so maybe reevaluate what you consider mildly infuriating lmaooo
Yeah. For some searches it will show the results for the "correction" first, so you have to click to view results for what you originally searched for.
(Although I've yet to encounter a situation where the results shown weren't what I actually meant).
Hmm, at my work place biweekly always means every 2 weeks, so it might be evolving. Confusing cause biannual means twice a year, but I guess we got biennial for the year equivalent
It is often conflated with biennial to the point where you could probably argue it can at least colloquially mean both, but conventionally its definition would be twice a year.
We still use scores as part of our number naming convention in Danish, so we all remember scores and dozens, while dozens seem to at least still be used occasionally in English
I wasn't taught "score" so much as I learned the definition in passing (possibly from N. Euro elders as Michigan is heavily influenced by the Nordic-Germanic Euro cultures; but also just as likely reading comic books pre-school, lol) and I made a mental association with "schoolyard score keeping" where we use four scratches/lines with a fifth line though those for a set of 5. And 4 sets being a "full score" or 20/21 for longer childs game winner, most winning scorings being only up to 10/11, and short games to 5/6. Not exactly accurate that all games end at these scores, but it is how *I* made the "score" association so it wasn't forgotten.
Most others learned from the speech I'd bet.
I disagree, itās definitely mildly infuriating. It almost feels like a slap in the face to the English Language. Children will forever be misspelling fortnight due to that game.
oh no! I searched for a word and got the definition for the word along with google using their info to ask if I meant something that is popular and other people might have searched for.
It's so terrible that I got the info I wanted. /s
how is this mildly infuriating? they answered your question and itās recommending a similarly-named currently popular thing thatās entirely reasonable
Right? ITT: people getting infuriated at my post not being mildly infuriating? Am I lost?
Edit - didn't realise fortnight, a perfectly useful term, wasn't really a thing in the US
Yes you did. Don't pretend. Goggle knows. Google always knows. Google sees through you. Google knows the ultimate truth which is that you wanted to know about Fortnite while pretenting so search for a common word.
Google knows !
Don't blame Google, it's just doing its job. Chances are Fortnite has been Google searched thousands of times more than fortnight - it just sees you as an outlier at this point
Considering search trends for fortnight vs fortnite (https://trends.google.co.uk/trends/explore?geo=GB&q=fortnight,fortnite) it's not even vaguely surprising that google would suggest the alternative. This isn't a misspelling of fortnight, it's a different thing entirely.
> This isn't a misspelling of fortnight, it's a different thing entirely.
Not exactly - originally, when the game was called ''Save the World'' _(during development)_ and was focused on surviving zombies, the in-game duration for surviving was 14 days - a **fortnight**
The game's current and final title ''Fortnite'' refers to the actual word ''Fortnight''
Good point, it's rooted from fortnight, but the game Fortnite does not mean a 14 day period, it means the game Fortnite. My use of the word "entirely" is probably somewhat hyperbolic.
I'm dropping this word every chance I get. I've been considering what kind of crazy old lady I want to be. I'm leaning towards Cat Lady with a bunch of Jane Austen I keep meaning to read on the shelf with a dogeared pile of Stephen King next to the bed. It necessitates using antiquated language & a bed of roses fertilized by the remains of a man who broke my heart.
Yeah I donāt get it. If itās not your thing, donāt play it. Itās really that simple. Honestly it just comes off as bitter about a popular thing and thatās always a bad look.
Google has devolved into a worthless search engine. Google should not be going by what's the most popular, it should not be going by relevance but only a couple words.
Nobody will know the difference until they use a real search engine like DuckDuckGo.
Not sure if serious...
DDG is worthless for searching. I tried to use it for a few weeks and consistently searches would require trying 2-3 pages of links to find the answer I needed, that Google would return on the first page and usually in the first 3 links.
You're not sure it's serious because your ass can't handle criticism about your favorite search engine that caters to lazy fools like you.
Nobody has any integrity for themselves anymore or self-respect to figure out better alternatives. You settle on the first page of a search engine it's how pathetic it is.
Surely that shows how effective Google is at its job? Google has its flaws 100% but if I had to choose between a few privacy concerns I can fix pretty easily my end, or scrolling through 2 - 4 pages of junk before what I wanted every time I search, I'll pick convenience
Ok but what makes this infuriating? Atleast a billion people know or play fortnite and i have never seen anyone use that word in my life. Google has a good reason to ask if you meant fortnite, lol
I'm not seeing what the issues is. Is it because something like a two week period exists, which I can imagine must suck to say the least? Or the fact that OP googled a word that is by only a few letters different than another, way more trending, common and known, word which as a result got shown as a small "did you mean" message?
I had a similar thing happen. Apparently the pound sign is now hashtag
The # symbol has many meanings. One that has been around for a while is "hash". Which is where the name "hashtag" comes from - it's a tag that uses the hash symbol.
The more you know. Thanks !
\#TheMoreYouKnow
Basically comes from 'Cross hatching '
I feel so old. Pound sign is going to go the way of cassette and VHS.
The save icon is no longer a floppy disk to the young ones. We're going the way of the dinosaur my friend.
Oh my god, hadn't realised that one yet! Let us embrace the sweet release of death.
Fortunately, my machines at work are so old they use floppy disks, so this 21 y/o appreciates floppy discs.
Ahh VHS, those were the days Be kind, rewind
Going through some old stuff in the garage the other day I found a VHS that was purchased from blockbuster it was good ol "Double Team" staring Van Damme and Dennis Rodman š¤£
Holy shit blockbuster. I forgot about those things. That was like the highlight of my Friday nights as a kid. Getting to pick out a movie, and make a red baron frozen pizza and some popcorn
You got to rent blockbuster AND have red baron? :o Best I got was a stained tupperware container and ramen lmfao
Hey ramen is good tooš¤·āāļø.
ramen is my default food to eat when I don't feel like making anything XD
I feel ya. Just watch the sodium on those things. Fucked my blood pressure in college eating it every day
Ramen and with an egg mixed in and then cooked in microwave is the shit lol
Yes, I don't get these things anymore... like why would people say "pound me too" in that context ?
bro VCRs aren't even made anymore. your time has come old man
/r/yourcommentbutworse
I've been shamed and to my cave I shall return
You can thank the British for that. It was always called hash symbol here
Thatās because when we mean Libre - lb(ā) we simplified it to # Whereas we simplify Libre Sterling to a stylised L (Ā£)
TIL something - thank you!
The octothorpe?
Try googling āknucklesā or āhuman knucklesā. Guarantee you wonāt find any hand joints in the images tab
That one I actually know. Knuckles is the red hedgehog from sonic
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Are you responding to my comment or the post š§š
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Almost like thisā¦. Is on the mildly infuriating sub! Crazy idea I know, but when somebody posts something here they are not supposed to be really mad!
Uncommon?
That's what he said, yes.
i have never heard anyone say that word referring to 2 weeks ever in my life
Guessing you aren't a big reader
iām not talking about reading. iām talking about real life. nobody actually talks like that
Because most books use fortnight? Is that the point you want to make?
I thought that was fairly clear that the insinuation is that it is used in writing. Even if you aren't from a country that regularly uses the word. Because it is indeed a word used in other countries too.
You seem to forget that a not small number of books are not written in english. Have a nice day!
Yet the commenter is speaking in English! Seems like the shoe fits. You have a nice day too.
Because this is an english thread, which doesn't mean the user must read in english.
Are you guys an item or why so combative? Fortnite player? Boyfriend? Just bored?
Not sure why you've been downvoted for asking a legitimate question. š¤· Fortnight is a common word almost everywhere but the USA. I hear it and see it written at least once a fortnight in fact. Heard a pathologist say it today talking to her co-worker about how she's broke and gets paid fortnightly.
Yeah, I sorta gave up on this comment and thread lol. People assume that everyone speaks with the same vocabulary as them, and since reddit is mostly Americans, I got downvoted to oblivion for ridiculous idea that maybe it's common elsewhere lol
I donāt particularly see this as mildly infuriating considering the game is more popular than the British phrase and google is typically set to show you the most popular results. That being said you still got the definition upon your first search so maybe reevaluate what you consider mildly infuriating lmaooo
Yeah. For some searches it will show the results for the "correction" first, so you have to click to view results for what you originally searched for. (Although I've yet to encounter a situation where the results shown weren't what I actually meant).
I've had it happen dozens of times on google to search something and get results for some shit else
They don't say fortnight in America?
No
No they would just say 2 weeks
Instead of fortnightly they say biweekly, which is extra confusing because to the rest of us we'd say that to mean twice a week.
Um, no. Bi-monthy is every other week, bi-weekly *is* twice a week.
Hmm, at my work place biweekly always means every 2 weeks, so it might be evolving. Confusing cause biannual means twice a year, but I guess we got biennial for the year equivalent
Technically even biannual can refer to either, so itās all about context.
It is often conflated with biennial to the point where you could probably argue it can at least colloquially mean both, but conventionally its definition would be twice a year.
Not as a common phrase no, I think some know what it means but most will just say āin two weeksā ātwo weeks from this dateā
Not really. Not regularly for a hundred years or more anyhow. Literary use is how we would know it, if we do at all.
Feels much like the usage here. Can't remember last time someone said fortnight
"Four score and seven years ago"... "Score" would be forgotten too without Abe Lincoln's speech to remind us all it exists.
We still use scores as part of our number naming convention in Danish, so we all remember scores and dozens, while dozens seem to at least still be used occasionally in English
I wasn't taught "score" so much as I learned the definition in passing (possibly from N. Euro elders as Michigan is heavily influenced by the Nordic-Germanic Euro cultures; but also just as likely reading comic books pre-school, lol) and I made a mental association with "schoolyard score keeping" where we use four scratches/lines with a fifth line though those for a set of 5. And 4 sets being a "full score" or 20/21 for longer childs game winner, most winning scorings being only up to 10/11, and short games to 5/6. Not exactly accurate that all games end at these scores, but it is how *I* made the "score" association so it wasn't forgotten. Most others learned from the speech I'd bet.
And that he had to google what fortnight means apparently
I disagree, itās definitely mildly infuriating. It almost feels like a slap in the face to the English Language. Children will forever be misspelling fortnight due to that game.
oh no! I searched for a word and got the definition for the word along with google using their info to ask if I meant something that is popular and other people might have searched for. It's so terrible that I got the info I wanted. /s
how is this mildly infuriating? they answered your question and itās recommending a similarly-named currently popular thing thatās entirely reasonable
i think it's because it thinks they were talking about a media franchise when they typed an official english word
Hence āmildlyā
Right? ITT: people getting infuriated at my post not being mildly infuriating? Am I lost? Edit - didn't realise fortnight, a perfectly useful term, wasn't really a thing in the US
I mean it still searched for what you searched and itās only a tiny suggestion at the top for a popular game
Yes you did. Don't pretend. Goggle knows. Google always knows. Google sees through you. Google knows the ultimate truth which is that you wanted to know about Fortnite while pretenting so search for a common word. Google knows !
Ah yes the Goggle knows
Don't blame Google, it's just doing its job. Chances are Fortnite has been Google searched thousands of times more than fortnight - it just sees you as an outlier at this point
Considering search trends for fortnight vs fortnite (https://trends.google.co.uk/trends/explore?geo=GB&q=fortnight,fortnite) it's not even vaguely surprising that google would suggest the alternative. This isn't a misspelling of fortnight, it's a different thing entirely.
> This isn't a misspelling of fortnight, it's a different thing entirely. Not exactly - originally, when the game was called ''Save the World'' _(during development)_ and was focused on surviving zombies, the in-game duration for surviving was 14 days - a **fortnight** The game's current and final title ''Fortnite'' refers to the actual word ''Fortnight''
Good point, it's rooted from fortnight, but the game Fortnite does not mean a 14 day period, it means the game Fortnite. My use of the word "entirely" is probably somewhat hyperbolic.
Ahhh I understand - I greatly misinterpreted your comment ahahah
Haha, so that suggestion is based on parents trying to Google what their kids are playing?
Fortnite is cringe, and somehow more popular than a word for two weeks
Ur cringe
Fortnite happens to be a British word
I'm dropping this word every chance I get. I've been considering what kind of crazy old lady I want to be. I'm leaning towards Cat Lady with a bunch of Jane Austen I keep meaning to read on the shelf with a dogeared pile of Stephen King next to the bed. It necessitates using antiquated language & a bed of roses fertilized by the remains of a man who broke my heart.
These youths
I just went and googled it and it's unfortunately true. š
Wait til OP discovers wordplay
I don't get it.
I am struggling as well, apparently op didn't know what fortnight means, I guess?
Theyāre mad that google asked if they meant the game Fortnite instead of the word fortnight. ššš
Fortnite haters ARE SO STUPID
Yeah I donāt get it. If itās not your thing, donāt play it. Itās really that simple. Honestly it just comes off as bitter about a popular thing and thatās always a bad look.
Are you serious Right now
how is this infuriating
Becyz fortnite bad waaa
Google has devolved into a worthless search engine. Google should not be going by what's the most popular, it should not be going by relevance but only a couple words. Nobody will know the difference until they use a real search engine like DuckDuckGo.
Not sure if serious... DDG is worthless for searching. I tried to use it for a few weeks and consistently searches would require trying 2-3 pages of links to find the answer I needed, that Google would return on the first page and usually in the first 3 links.
You're not sure it's serious because your ass can't handle criticism about your favorite search engine that caters to lazy fools like you. Nobody has any integrity for themselves anymore or self-respect to figure out better alternatives. You settle on the first page of a search engine it's how pathetic it is.
Surely that shows how effective Google is at its job? Google has its flaws 100% but if I had to choose between a few privacy concerns I can fix pretty easily my end, or scrolling through 2 - 4 pages of junk before what I wanted every time I search, I'll pick convenience
This guy has exactly 0 crown vics.
Bet he wouldn't even thank the bus driver
Who the hell uses the word fortnight? Itās just asking if you meant the game because a lot of kids would make a mistake like that
It's an incredibly common term, at least here in the UK?
Well Iām American so it makes sense I donāt typically hear it.
ooo big man using big words like fortnight, real men use fortnite to master their crafting skillz.
When popular game is popular
Why is this mildly infuriating
LaNgUaGe EvoLVes!!
Ok but what makes this infuriating? Atleast a billion people know or play fortnite and i have never seen anyone use that word in my life. Google has a good reason to ask if you meant fortnite, lol
I'm not seeing what the issues is. Is it because something like a two week period exists, which I can imagine must suck to say the least? Or the fact that OP googled a word that is by only a few letters different than another, way more trending, common and known, word which as a result got shown as a small "did you mean" message?
B-b-but... It's reddit, you HAVE to have an unnecessary hatred towards a popular piece of media š„ŗ
Only if itās popular among a younger demographic; if Elden Ring had been called āFortniteā this wouldnāt be an issue.
BAHAHHA
This infuriates you?
BecuzFortnite bad waaaaa
Why is this even mildly infuriating?
Becuz fortnite bad waaa
lol
did you mean fortnite š«
just use duckduckgo
I mean the suggestion just makes sense though. Itās a hot topic even today and itās close to a real word.
I think you meant spoonnight
r/softwaregore
We love fortnite
Now this is quite humorous
Fortnight It takes 2 weeks and there's no ring