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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 15 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Did the subtitle transcriber think that "In" is a name or something? Why is the "I" capitalized?

[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 34 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Unsure if.... fuck it I'll just blow it open.

The context is that log~e~ has a shortcut called "ln", that is L N, said lawn, for "natural logarithm" (but in... Latin probably?)

And so the joke is that "ln" looks like "in" in this context.

[–] minkymunkey_7_7@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

So this is really a font joke, stupid fonts that make the I and l look the same.

I always set my defaults to Tahoma for this reason.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

In several mathematical notation systems, the most important being APL/J, programming languages inspired to codify "tools of thought" notation as code, the log function is ln. 10&log is base 10 log.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yes I know the joke. I was just pointing out that the "I" in "in" seems to be capitolized for no reason.

[–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

...it's not a capital "i", it's a lowercase L. Thus the joke; it's "I'm LN" instead of the usual "I'm in".

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Yes I know the joke. It's an "I" in the subtitles I've watched the show twice over.

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 months ago

Maybe they're going by Emily Dickenson capitalization rules.

[–] ieGod@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago

It appears you do not, in fact, get the joke.

[–] PinkyCoyote@sopuli.xyz 17 points 3 months ago

Its probably edited. The dialogue is real though.

[–] Sidhean@piefed.social 4 points 3 months ago

I believe it was edited to fit the joke. If not, yeah I dunno. The context in the scene isn't ambiguous or anything, so if its like that in the show's subtitles, its likely an error.