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The next test will start Thursday afternoon (Pacific Time) / June 23rd

OK!?

Posted 18 months ago by stoot barfield Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • *refreshes*

    huh? wha??? *stares at big red sign*
    Posted 18 months ago by Joy La Maru Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Definitely not from an alternate dimension. Not even sure how that would work. Alternative dimension maybe, or perhaps a parallel dimension where everyone is happily playing Glitch without interruptions.
    Posted 18 months ago by Dura Den Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Haha! Mean, but funny, joke!!
    Posted 18 months ago by Eureka Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Are you saying my grammar are bad, Dura? ;P

    Edited: Ah, there was nothing wrong with how I wrote that, according to Wikipedia:

    alternate universe (plural alternate universes) (physics, cosmology) A hypothetical world situated in a different dimension of space and time than the real world consisting of the universe known and experienced by human beings.  [quotations ▼] (literature, narratology) An imaginary realm, often a variant form of the real world, depicting a different way events could have unfolded or the universe could have functioned.  [quotations ▼]
    Posted 18 months ago by Shepherdmoon Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I wouldn't dream of saying anything bad about your grammar moonie! :)
    Posted 18 months ago by Dura Den Subscriber! | Permalink
  • see above... ok, yes, that's alternate "universe", but others have also used alternate "dimension"

    Example: www.abovetopsecret.com/foru...
    Posted 18 months ago by Shepherdmoon Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thank Goodness! 
    Posted 18 months ago by fet osunaa Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thank Goodness! 
    Posted 18 months ago by fet osunaa Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thank Goodness! 
    I don't think I can wait much more longer to play glitch!! 
    Posted 18 months ago by fet osunaa Subscriber! | Permalink
  • O____O
    Posted 18 months ago by Cerulean Subscriber! | Permalink
  • *twitches* Must. Have. Glitch. Fix.
    Posted 18 months ago by Ebil Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Shepherdmoon it's not the use of dimension that or universe that is wrong. it's the use of alternate instead of alternative.
    Posted 18 months ago by Dura Den Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Both are used to mean the same thing, from what I saw when I did a google search.
    Posted 18 months ago by Shepherdmoon Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Alternate means occurring or succeeding by turns while alternative means offering or expressing a choice.
    Posted 18 months ago by Dura Den Subscriber! | Permalink
  • OK--maybe you should write Wikipedia and tell them they were wrong :)
    Posted 18 months ago by Shepherdmoon Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I like to think when the game is closed , we all get sucked up back insides the giants imagination till they sneeze us all out again for the opening :D that's why i carry this over sized feather with me ::tickle tickles::
    Posted 18 months ago by Karma Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Shepherdmoon, no need, the Oxford English Dictionary will put you right every time.
    Posted 18 months ago by Dura Den Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Lol Wikipedia is wrong a lot. Because people are wrong a lot and it's written by half of the world's population. :P
    Posted 18 months ago by Cerulean Subscriber! | Permalink
  • f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5....... .....~deep breath~..... f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5......
    Posted 18 months ago by BeatFreq Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @playglitch Glitch, the game OK! You can save your refresh finger for at least the next 18 hours: next test opens tomorrow (Thursday afternoon, Pacific time).
    Posted (according to Twitter) 19 hours ago. :)
    Posted 18 months ago by Fokian Fool Subscriber! | Permalink
  • they said "at least" :)
    Posted 18 months ago by EgIantine Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Which finger is your "refresh" finger?
    Posted 18 months ago by Dura Den Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Shepherdmoon; @Dura

    Relevant entries from the OED online:

    Alternation is "a. The action or an instance of two things succeeding each other by turn; alternate succession or occurrence."

    Alternative
    1. Characterized by alternation; alternating, alternate.
    2a. Of a statement, question, or proposition: consisting of statements separated by or; that expresses or offers one of two or more things; disjunctive.

    I searched the British National Corpus for both terms, which threw up exactly four instances each. Searching the American Contemporary Corpus (http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/) gives 29 uses of "alternative.." and 68 of "alternate" (which is not really a big enough difference to make a definite statement of what is more popular IRL.

    It might be of interest to note Google's response to searching "Alternative Universe", which suggests "Alternate universe" ;)

    That said, "Alternative universe" still has over a million hits, making up roughly 1/4 of the combined "alternate"/"alternative" hits.

    From this I would say that "Alternative Universe" is more 'correct', though "Alternate Universe" is more frequently used. I guess it's probably because it's slightly shorter, punchier and sounds a little cooler (if you don't think about the meaning too much like I obviously did).
    Posted 18 months ago by Captain Mouldy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Obviously the length and research time taken into my previous post is owed to the fact that Glitch is still offline ;)
    Posted 18 months ago by Captain Mouldy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thanks for looking that up Captain! Although, our fixation on the semantics here seems to provide only more proof that we really need the game to be open now!
    Posted 18 months ago by Shepherdmoon Subscriber! | Permalink
  • And... stop reading this because it's open!
    Posted 18 months ago by Shepherdmoon Subscriber! | Permalink
  • And... stop reading this because it's open!
    Posted 18 months ago by Shepherdmoon Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Captain Mouldy

    Why, I thank you for taking the time to confirm what I already knew, i.e. alternate and alternative are completely different words with completely different meanings and are not interchangeable (unless you are illiterate).
    Posted 18 months ago by Dura Den Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Oh it's online! Ha, best time-kill EVER. And NP shep, I love doing this sort of thing
    Posted 18 months ago by Captain Mouldy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Oh, it's open. So who cares about that stuff anyway!
    Posted 18 months ago by Dura Den Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Dura - sorry, didn't mean to be patronising - it's a habit, when I look at usage like this, it's good practice to try to be absolutely crystal clear as to what I'm looking at, so laying out the dictionary definition is always a good starting point. The rest was corpus stuff, not looking at what is/isn't interchangeable, but what people actually use.
    Posted 18 months ago by Captain Mouldy Subscriber! | Permalink
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