The Dark Balloon

A weblog by Hao Lian.
A terrible secret guarded by golems.
A note that thanks you for being born, all those years ago.

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Perls.

Would you like to changes your singular nouns to plural? You can do that and much much more, in Perl (via). Note the authors have struggled with people over octopuses and viruses. Clearly they have yet to meet real grammar nazi-quibblers.

[(2008 January 21) • • .]

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So it’s not “octopi”? My world has been flipped upside-down.

—Prashanth on 2008.01.22 (23:04)

But wait, there’s more.

—shadytrees on 2008.01.23 (22:17)

Okay, now that’s just like fornicating with the tooth fairy. :’(

—Prashanth on 2008.01.24 (21:53)

Abandon your ideas.

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