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mu
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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/moo/ The correct answer to the classic trick question Have you stopped
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beating your wife yet?. Assuming that you have no wife or you have never
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beaten your wife, the answer yes is wrong because it implies that you used
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to beat your wife and then stopped, but no is worse because it suggests that
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you have one and are still beating her. According to various Discordians and
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Douglas Hofstadter the correct answer is usually mu , a Japanese word
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alleged to mean Your question cannot be answered because it depends on
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incorrect assumptions. Hackers tend to be sensitive to logical inadequacies
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in language, and many have adopted this suggestion with enthusiasm. The word
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mu is actually from Chinese, meaning nothing ; it is used in mainstream
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Japanese in that sense. In Chinese it can also mean have not (as in I have
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not done it ), or lack of , which may or may not be a definite, complete
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'nothing').
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