IndolentRoshi comments on Autological words

[–] IndolentRoshi@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Is the word "heterological" homological or heterological?

If it is heterological, then it must be homological.

If it is homological, then it must be heterological.

[–] kadu@scribe.disroot.org 20 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Don't worry, I wrote a program that can find the answer for you. It's been running for a while though...

Maybe somebody could come up with a program to determine if my program will halt or continue forever?

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[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

The answer is 42.

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[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

What are you trying to do, kill robots?

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[–] blujan@sopuli.xyz 1 point 1 year ago

None, we assumed the classification was binary, but these words are called Grellingian Words

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