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The Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

Autological words

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Autological words

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The Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago
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  • IndolentRoshi@lemmy.world
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    Is the word “heterological” homological or heterological?

    If it is heterological, then it must be homological.

    If it is homological, then it must be heterological.

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      Don’t worry, I wrote a program that can find the answer for you. It’s been running for a while though…

      Maybe somebody could come up with a program to determine if my program will halt or continue forever?

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        The answer is 42.

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      None, we assumed the classification was binary, but these words are called Grellingian Words

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      What are you trying to do, kill robots?

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