Re: poll ideas quest

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Croaking and Carping by yojimbo (Monk) on Mar 30, 2001 at 20:41 UTC
So now tell me how you'd mime "carp" to them (btw, carp is the funniest perl function ;-)	[reply]
Re: Croaking and Carping by halley (Prior) on Jul 15, 2005 at 15:36 UTC
Simply say that "to carp" is colloquial for "to nag, to bother, to `warn`, to complain." They'll get it. It's not like other languages don't have double meanings and puns and homonyms too. For example, there is a kanji in Japanese for the word "woman." There is another kanji which is simply three copies of "woman" crammed into one character, which means "noisy" or "immoral." Go ahead, tell me that there's no ancient cultural significance to that linguistic choice. -- `[ e d @ h a l l e y . c c ]`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Croaking and Carping by gregor42 (Parson) on Jul 20, 2005 at 15:52 UTC
For example, there is a kanji in Japanese for the word "woman." There is another kanji which is simply three copies of "woman" crammed into one character, which means "noisy" or "immoral." Let's not forget the Kanji for 'trouble' is two women under one roof. I don't think we need a regex to sense a pattern emerging here... Wait! This isn't a Parachute, this is a Backpack!	[reply]
Re^2: Croaking and Carping by Duco (Sexton) on Oct 08, 2005 at 00:13 UTC
Someone once told me that in Chinese, the symbol for marriage is the symbol for a woman, next to the symbol for a man, with the man in a box. No idea if it's apocryphal.	[reply]
Re^3: Croaking and Carping by halley (Prior) on Oct 08, 2005 at 01:24 UTC
Re^4: Croaking and Carping by Duco (Sexton) on Oct 14, 2005 at 23:32 UTC
Re^3: Croaking and Carping by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on May 20, 2006 at 03:11 UTC
Re: Croaking and Carping by ww (Archbishop) on Mar 02, 2005 at 19:32 UTC
fishiest, anyway!	[reply]
Re: Croaking and Carping by sgt (Deacon) on Dec 21, 2006 at 17:41 UTC
carp is the least "sexy" perl function for people who are not native (or assimilated) english speakers. It's kind of weird but I need to understand the "verb" to use it (and periodically I look at the meaning of carp in some online dictionnary). Result: yes I croak sometimes, but do not carp... that could be a pool question, no? what is the most unused perl function? and that will be carp ;) cheers --steph (who has lived for 7 years in Ann Arbor, MI and one year in Southampton, England) a carp is a silent fish...what kind of mnemonics is that for LOUD error printing, I wonder...	[reply]
Re: Croaking and Carping by Anonymous Monk on Jul 21, 2005 at 15:37 UTC
Start making your mouth go all rounded, like a fish mouth, while making "blah, blah, blah" noises...	[reply]
Re: Re: poll ideas quest by ambrus (Abbot) on Apr 19, 2004 at 13:53 UTC
Shutdown. You can confuse it with reboot (both are syscalls, but reboot is not a perl function, as it is highly system-dependent).	[reply]
Re^3: poll ideas quest by sgt (Deacon) on Dec 22, 2006 at 08:53 UTC
but that's the fault of the socket API isn't? but yes poorly chosen "verbs" should have at least decent aliases...like carp -> shout ;)	[reply]
Re^2: poll ideas quest by naikonta (Curate) on Apr 11, 2007 at 11:07 UTC
Nice story:-) I never thought about it that way. I'm not a native English speaker, but I never bother to find out how it translates into my language. I just naturally see it, as the way I imagine it, croaking means spraying some curses before it dies considering the lines it throws. It's been one of my fave functions ever since I knew it and use it all the time for big programs despite hurting my eyes by looking at the error log when something goes bad.	[reply]