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Autological words (media.piefed.world)

submitted 2 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

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[–] IndolentRoshi@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago (3 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 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

The answer is 42.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

What are you trying to do, kill robots?

[–] blujan@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

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