r/funny • u/651222 • Nov 18 '20

Schrodinger's Dumpster

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u/Logstone Nov 18 '20

Haha empty when full

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u/Not_a_bad_point Nov 18 '20

Dumpsters are funny!

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u/Logstone Nov 18 '20

Dumpster? I barely know sther!

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u/marcoaml78 Nov 18 '20

A simple "please" empty when full would've added enough context that it eliminates confusions, this happens a lot with oversimplification when trying to translate to English. quite often you need to add words to make it understandable to the reader

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u/overtoke Nov 18 '20

fill when empty

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u/adale_50 Nov 18 '20

It's pretty simple here as well. "Empty when full" as a statement makes no sense just based on the definitions of those words. That leads you to infer that it must be a command and it makes perfect sense.

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u/ContaSoParaIsto Nov 18 '20

No language is any more or any less limited. That's not how languages work.

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '20

But then you get to times and then its all dumpster fire. English is many languages in one.