Cyan comments on The Tragedy of Group Selectionism - Less Wrong

36 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 07 November 2007 07:47AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (86)

Sort By: Old

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: SilasBarta 12 February 2010 05:56:26PM *  0 points [-]

Yeah, along the same lines: whenever I saw British speakers write "[X is true.] Full stop.", I assumed the metaphor referred to a ship making a "full stop", not a period. But at least the meaning comes across correctly! British speakers seeing "period" aren't so lucky! :-P

Comment author: Cyan 12 February 2010 05:59:55PM 0 points [-]

As a Canadian, neither expression ever elicited unintended imagery for me, so this conversation has been doubly enlightening.