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Comment author: DanielLC 02 July 2013 05:54:08AM 12 points [-]

Does anyone else here use dictionary of numbers (recommended on the xkcd blag)?

Hermione's body should now be at almost exactly five degrees Celsius [≈ recommended for keeping food cool].

Comment author: Solvent 02 July 2013 10:49:03AM 9 points [-]

Not only do I use that, it means that your comment renders as:

Hermione's body should now be at almost exactly five degrees Celsius [≈ recommended for keeping food cool] [≈ recommended for keeping food cool].

to me.

Comment author: DanielLC 02 July 2013 06:53:40PM *  1 point [-]

You forgot that I use it too. That means that your comment looks like

Hermione's body should now be at almost exactly five degrees Celsius [≈ recommended for keeping food cool] [≈ recommended for keeping food cool].

For everyone not using dictionary of numbers, that looks like

Hermione's body should now be at almost exactly five degrees Celsius [≈ recommended for keeping food cool] [≈ recommended for keeping food cool] [≈ recommended for keeping food cool].

Comment author: TrE 02 July 2013 09:03:07PM 6 points [-]

Now, I think the line is crossed where it gets less and less funny each further iteration.

Comment author: DanielLC 03 July 2013 12:34:35AM 1 point [-]

Don't worry. If we repeat it long enough, it will be funny again (Warning: TV Tropes).

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Comment author: malcolmocean 03 July 2013 06:26:53PM 10 points [-]

I wouldn't have believed you, but I actually laughed out loud at this. Empirical evidence = it's funny, to me at least.

Comment author: Decius 02 July 2013 09:17:58PM 3 points [-]

Sounds like an update to the plugin is in order: render both

five degrees Celsius

and

five degrees Celsius [≈ recommended for keeping food cool]

as

five degrees Celsius [≈ recommended for keeping food cool]

Comment author: Alsadius 03 July 2013 04:35:08AM 3 points [-]

Possibly the latter should have [sic] as well, just because the presence of it in the original could be relevant.

Comment author: Decius 03 July 2013 05:38:16AM 1 point [-]

That's just pushing the problem one more down the line; you end up with ... [sic] [sic].

Color code it?

Comment author: Alsadius 03 July 2013 06:29:46AM 0 points [-]

[sic] [sic x2] [sic x3] etc.

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