Probably we should have it display in varying colors depending on status.
Make it flash a big green A for no antibodies, a big blue A for only the short-term immunoglobulin M signalling the infection is just getting started, a big yellow A for both immunoglobulin M and the long-term immunoglobulin G for an infection that's well underway, and then finally a big red A for just immunoglobulin G.
Pity it doesn't detect the virus itself, but it will make for a lot of human stoplights.
In this video clip, amateur reality TV-chef Gordon Ramsay says,
I think you're a plank. [...] Plank means an idiot.
Is this a real definition of plank? Dictionary.com doesn't acknowledge it. Is Gordon Ramsay just calling people a slice of a dead tree?
@RegDwigнt He's right in that respect. How would we tell him from the other planks?
@EdwinAshworth: How is it incorrect to follow one's own pace? Follow your own guidelines, rules, examples, prescriptions, thoughts, ideas, volition—but not pace? That seems prescriptive to a literal fault. And are we to assume that Ngrams comprise a holy scripture, in which are to be found all grammatical one- to four-word instances of English? — Robusto1 min ago
@RegDwigнt What's the word for asking a question over and over but never accepting or even acknowledging any answer? There's a kind of zen quality to it.
@Færd I read it as an analogical formation from 'aristocracy'. That is, there is no meaning in '-ist- (it was part of 'arist-') that just got carried over accidentally. As though the suffix for 'rule by...' is '-istocracy'.
> The suffixes -er (the "comparative") and -est (the "superlative") are of Germanic origin and are cognate with the Latin suffixes -ior and -issimus and Ancient Greek -īōn and -istos.
Apparently men are half again as likely to die of the new virus as women are.
This means:
1. For every woman who dies, one and a half men die. 2. For every man who dies, two thirds of a woman dies. 3. Male-to-female sex-change operations are about to become far more popular than ever before.