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Salvete! Honestly, though, who all would even want to understand a Kiwi? They're practically escaped convicts, since everyone in the Northern Hemisphere knows that they're just tiny Aussies.* Also, I have to translate code for them, since they cannot do for themselves. [1] Ba dum cha, Brooke *warning contains humour and #notintendedtobeafactualstatement. [1] http://translate.koha-community.org/en_NZ/ > On 05/09/2014 02:44 AM, Susan Kane wrote: >> Obviously, we must now task someone in CODE4LIB with writing a Python >> script to convert New Zealand English to International English. > > Yes, because tasking people with AI-complete programming tasks (see > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI-complete ) is only slightly worse than > systematically malfunctioning sarcasm filters. > > >> Or, I guess we could solve this on the user side with a sarcasm filter or a >> humor pipe, but you might lose some data that way. > > Or we could acknowledge code4lib's role as a safe place for people to > tune their sarcasm detectors. > > cheers > stuart >