noticed

[totient]

When I start a sentence with "sure", what I usually mean is "no". It's kind of like using "bless his heart" as an insult.

Comments

[ceo]

Is the opposite also true?

[palmwiz.livejournal.com]

Only when the second word in the sentence is "shit".

[mangosteen]

I had a prof who would, when presented with a well-argued but wrong opinion, say "Okay, sure. Let's say we do that.", followed by the inevitable "Now look what happens when $pathological_case."

He usually pause for two seconds between those two clauses, so you had a moment to think about your fate.

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

Phi, I didn't know you were a southerner. ;-)

[cintyber.livejournal.com]

What about in double? "Sure, Sure"

[hotpoint.livejournal.com]

I love how Paul Newman's character (Sidney J. Mussburger) in The Hudsucker Proxy says "Sure, sure" rapid-fire every other sentence, emphasizing how little he's listening to anyone lower-ranking than he is.

[iy.livejournal.com]

I'd noticed that :-) I find that when I start a sentence with Look I usually mean you need to be smacked and when anyone in the UK starts a sentence with Acutally it means boy are you dumb and am I going to set you right, politely of course cause I'm english.

[civic-oracle.livejournal.com]

Are there plans for /phi 2.0 to come with a translation matrix, at least for the linux version?

[palmwiz.livejournal.com]

/phi 2.0 lacked the translation matrix, but rumors are that it'll be part of the internationalization for version 2.1.