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still says videotape
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Turing Test
We have a winner. I wonder if the the gap between human and artificial is closing from both directions?
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Interesting idea. I know people who use the pound sign in written communication and call it a hash tag. Damn cyborgs.
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The future is unwritten
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I think this line's mostly filler.
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The character the computer was playing was a child who did not speak the language natively, explaining gaps in knowledge and unnatural grammar.
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I hear them call the tide
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Way back in the dark ages when computers were dinosaur-powered and I was doing my bachelor's in the UK in Math and Computer Science, we called this : # Hash of the Hash Symbol (not Hashtag). I only ever heard it called Pound when I moved to the US. Of course the pound is the currency in the UK so a pound sign is something entirely different.
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In school, it was called the number symbol, then in life I learned it was called a pound sign. Now somebody has decided it should be called a hashtag.
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I learned pound sign, then octothorpe. I have never heard anyone else use octothorpe colloquially.
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Wow, yeah. I'd completely forgotten about Octothorpe. I think as soon as my math teacher said it wouldn't be on the test.
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LOL!
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I hear them call the tide
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Ok that font of all knowledge Wickedpedia says you guys are the only ones who call it 'pound"
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Well yeah, who else matters?
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Werepandas - lurking in your shadows
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we always said the tic-tac-toe sign
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I can hear my ears
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It's only a pound sign when you're pressing buttons for phone prompts.
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Because when confronted by 10 different single digit numbers, it would be far too confusing to call it a number sign.
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Read? I only know how to write.
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