Talk:Hofstadter's law/Archives/2014

Confusion

Im confused. I expected it would take 10-15 minutes for me to write something about this seemingly erratic "law" but I'm done now. 2 minutes. So.... uhm?

Just because you have a fucked up last name that sounds german/professorish maybe you shouldnt make up stupid laws that dont make sense? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 20:20, 24 April 2007‎ (talk) 213.141.89.53

Oh and substantional isnt in the actual law. It just says "it". Mmm? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 20:22, 24 April 2007‎ (talk) 213.141.89.53

this guy is well known and for real, and a lot of people really really like GEB his famous book. however, the article is pompous and so poorly written that it comes off as total crap. this needs to be completely rewritten 131.247.152.4 20:19, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

One can't prove, once a task is completed, how long one expected it to take without having said so before the task was started. I'd assume the above comment was a self-referential joke ("I expected it would take 10-15 minutes for me to write something," the something being, "I expected it would take 10-15 minutes for me to write something"), except the next comment is intentionally rude. Hyacinth (talk) 13:32, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Facade

FaCade (Fuh-SAWED) spelled the French way with the cedille? Maybe in French, but in English we don't have that letter. Facade as it appears in English should always be spelled "Facade". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 00:59, 1 July 2007‎ (talk) 70.95.233.49

Brooks law

I added Brooks' law to the related list. I wouldn't want this appendix to become a long list of xxxx's law, but Brooks' law directly deals with late projects becoming later, which is a related theme to Hofstadter's law. KWD. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kwdavids (talk • contribs) 13:55, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

"Amounted time"?

"Amounted" is the past tense of a verb. "Amount" is a noun. Can someone who knows what the author is trying to say express it in proper English, please? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.184.75.225 (talk) 13:32, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Done. (sorry about the double edit, I forgot to type in the reason the first time)

Amounted is a strange piece of English. It actually has a role as an intransitive verb (such as "all his efforts amounted to nought"), but its use in the sentence we're talking about was cryptic at best. — Preceding unsigned comment added by GreenAsJade (talk • contribs) 04:41, 4 October 2011