Given the Question and Answer pair, detect whether the answer is acceptable or not. Denote acceptable answer as "yes", otherwise denote as "no". An acceptable answer is consistent with the context in question, detailed, long, and uses general knowledge of English. Answers that are not definite and suggest a variety of options are not acceptable answers.

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Question: What's the difference between the following examples: Neither of my teachers are mathematicians. None of my teachers are mathematicians.
Answer: Neither - not either - implies that there is a choice of only two. So 'neither of my teachers' is only correct if there are exactly two teachers, 'none of my teachers' can be any number.

Output: yes

Explanation: The answer is well in context with the question and gives a proper explanation to resolve it. Hence, the output "yes" is correct.

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Question: If I were to try to achieve something you could say I 'had a go'. If I tried it multiple times, how would I write that down? I had many goes or I had many go's or I had many gos
Answer: The dictionaries I've checked seem to be unanimous that the plural of the noun 'go' is 'goes'. I didn't see one list its plural as 'gos'. However, I didn't check all dictionaries. American Heritage Dictionary: n. pl. goes Collins Dictionary: n, pl goes Merriam-Webster Dictionary: plural goes Cambridge Dictionary: plural goes Random House Unabridged Dictionary (dictionary.com): plural goes Google NGram Viewer does not show any results for 'two gos at' or 'two gos at', but does when written as 'goes'. A Google search shows the following results: 'two gos at' = 453 results. 'two goes at' = 19,500 results. 'three gos at' = 252 results. 'three goes at' = 20,200 results. Note that both Google search and Ngram Viewer may show false positives, as Google search, as far as I know, doesn't take punctuation into account when giving search results, ie., full stops, commas. But I think it's safe to assume the consensus is that the plural of go (attempt or try) is 'goes'. I think this is a good question, as somewhere in my head I have an instinct to write it 'gos'. However the answer is gotten easily by checking some dictionaries. Also, if you wrote 'I had three gos at it before giving up', I have a feeling the typical reader probably wouldn't even be surprised by it or notice it particularly as wrong. This is just my opinion. I have this feeling because the '-os'/'-oes' plural ending rules are wildly inconsistent. Potatoes, tomatoes and heroes are correct. But 'photos' and 'burritos' are correct. However most dictionaries seem to list either '-os' or '-oes' ending as acceptable in 'ghetto' and 'mosquito'. Both 'mosquito' and 'burrito' most likely come from Spanish, yet most dictionaries say only 'mosquito' can have plural ending either '-os' or 'oes', whereas they're consistent in listing '-os' for burrito plural. Same goes for 'canto', 'manifesto' and 'grotto'. These words most likely come from Italian, yet the plural of 'canto' is 'cantos', whereas the dictionaries say the plural of 'grotto' or 'manifesto' can end in either '-os' or '-oes'. Addendum As some people have claimed that the rules for -os or -oes plural endings are quite consistent (and I happen to disagree), I've included more examples to show just how unpredictable this can get. The claim generally is basically that borrowed words or imported words from other languages have -os as their endings and most everything else has -oes. The more specific claim is this rule applies for words from Romance languages specifically. embargo (Spanish): Dictionaries show only -oes plural. NGrams show -oes much more common. tornado (Spanish): Dictionaries show either -os or -oes plural. NGrams shows -oes much more common. desperado (Spanish): Dictionaries show either -os or -oes plural. NGrams shows -oes more common. cargo (Spanish) plural possibly as the pants: Dictionaries show either -os or -oes. NGrams shows -oes more common. mango (Portuguese): Dictionaries show both -os or -oes. NGrams shows -oes much more common. domino (uncertain exactly which language, but a Romance one, or maybe directly from Latin): Dictionaries give either -os or -oes. NGrams shows -oes much more common. volcano (Italian): Dictionaries give either -os or -oes. NGrams shows -oes much more common. motto (Italian): Dictionaries give either -os or -oes. NGrams shows -oes to be more common. Words taken directly from Latin many times have -oes plural ending, but not always: veto has plural vetoes torpedo has plural torpedoes However memento overwhelmingly has plural mementos. And embryo is always embryos. Echo, directly from Greek, has plural 'echoes'. hello (native English): Nearly always 'hellos'. no (native English): Much more common as 'nos', ie., 'yeses and nos'. do (native English): Dictionaries give plural as either 'dos' or 'do's'. The results for searches of these terms would be confounding to say the least. weirdo (native English): some dictionaries show both -os or -oes. NGrams shows -os is much more popular Unknown origin: hobo: Dictionaries give either -os or -oes. NGrams show roughly same frequency. gizmo: = Dictionaries only give -os, 'gizmoes' doesn't show anything in NGrams. gazebo: Dictionaries show both -os or -oes. NGrams shows -os more common. So I don't know about anyone else, but I personally need help, in many ways.

Output: yes

Explanation: The output is correct. Even though the answer is very long, it is in context and gives good examples to explain in every detail possible.

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Question: I've read this and this. I know that the underlying question has been answered, my problem is of a different nature: I'm currently writing my master's thesis in CS and my professor thinks that the apostrophe possessive is only applicable to people. He claims to have spoken to a linguist from Cambridge who confirmed his opinion. Neither my professor nor I am a native speaker and the thesis is being written in Germany. Now, I know that he won't care if I just send him a couple of links to the answers here. So my question is: How do I convince my professor? Are there any 'more scientific™' sources that I can point to? Examples of phrases: If each plant's humidity is displayed publicly [...] [...] shows an overview of the node's structure. Due to an issue in the network stack's IPv6 subsystem [...]
Answer: 'Examples of phrases: If each plant's humidity is displayed publicly [...] [...] shows an overview of the node's structure. Due to an issue in the network stack's IPv6 subsystem [...]' These examples are all good English.

Output: no

Explanation: The answer is not in context with the question and doesn't even provide examples for the explanation. Therefore, the output "no" is correct.

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Question: Is there a noun or adjective for the following or similar: a pleading before a judge for clemency a prayer before God begging for mercy Is there a better word than 'begging', 'pleading', 'petitioning', etc.?
Answer: In the case of religion I would use the word 'prostrate' or 'prostration'. This is when you kneel down with your body flat before a God or religious icon. I have used the word in non religious instances too but this may not be correct.

Output: no

Explanation: The output is "no". Although it is in context with the question, it doesn't provide the definitions required to explain.

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Question: Possible Duplicates: How to phrase an asking sentence that must be answered with an ordinal number? Framing a question whose answer is an ordinal number Given that I want to know Barack Obama is the 44th President of U.S.A, how can I frame a question like: The how manyeth president is Barack Obama?
Answer: 'Which President of the United States is (or was) the 44th?' (But I'm not sure I understand the question.) EDIT: Now that I understand the question, I think you might need to put the question as How many Presidents of the US have there been, including the present one? Alternatively, Fill in the blank. 'Barack Obama is the - th President of the US'.

Output: yes

Explanation: The output is wrong. The correct output should be "no" because the answer does not clearly explain the asked question.

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Question: Does 'egoistic' and 'egotistic' mean the same thing?
Answer: No. While similar, they have some important differences. Consider this note on usage from the Oxford Dictionaries: The words egoism and egotism are frequently confused, as though interchangeable, but there are distinctions worth noting. Both words derive from Latin ego ('I'), the first-person singular pronoun. Egotism, the more commonly used term , denotes an excessive sense of self-importance, too-frequent use of the word 'I,' and general arrogance and boastfulness. Egoism, a more subtle term , is perhaps best left to ethicists, for whom it denotes a view or theory of moral behavior in which self-interest is the root of moral conduct. An egoist, then , might devote considerable attention to introspection, but could be modest about it, whereas an egotist would have an exaggerated sense of the importance of his or her self-analysis, and would have to tell everyone.

Output: no

Explanation: The correct output should be "yes". Because the answer is in context with the question and provides various detailed examples with required definitions.

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Question: We were discussing something like pre-boss era, post-boss era. What word describes the era where the boss is still there?
Answer: The word you might use to describe what is happening now is current. Era is rather a grand way of referring to periods with and without a boss, but I assume there is a tinge of irony in doing so.

Output: yes

Explanation: The output should be "no". Because the answer isn't providing any explanations and answer itself is wrong.

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Question: Everybody deals with this phenomenon daily but I had my curiousity piqued when someone claimed that punishing the many for the actions of the few was just called "group punishment." Group Punishment is simply punishing a large group of people. Is there a specific word for when a large group is punished because of the actions of the few? Such as in the following: Little Jimmy wasn't happy when the entire class was forced to work through recess because of 3 kids getting into a fight yesterday.
Answer: Collective punishment is the formal expression: Penalty imposed on every member of a group without regard to his or her involvement in the group's actions and conduct. Related: collective responsibility. (www.businessdictionary.com) Is collective punishment fair in the classroom?: Under the 1949 Geneva Conventions collective punishment is considered a war crime. "No general penalty, pecuniary or otherwise, shall be inflicted upon the population on account of the acts of individuals for which they cannot be regarded as jointly and severally responsible." Unfortunately for our students they do not have rights as general citizens or even our war enemies and common criminals in society. They shed their rights as they enter the double doors of the school and us parents shed our ability to ask for fair treatment of our children.

Output: yes


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Question: What's the difference between the following examples: Neither of my teachers are mathematicians. None of my teachers are mathematicians.
Answer: Neither - not either - implies that there is a choice of only two. So 'neither of my teachers' is only correct if there are exactly two teachers, 'none of my teachers' can be any number.

Output: yes

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Question: If I were to try to achieve something you could say I 'had a go'. If I tried it multiple times, how would I write that down? I had many goes or I had many go's or I had many gos
Answer: The dictionaries I've checked seem to be unanimous that the plural of the noun 'go' is 'goes'. I didn't see one list its plural as 'gos'. However, I didn't check all dictionaries. American Heritage Dictionary: n. pl. goes Collins Dictionary: n, pl goes Merriam-Webster Dictionary: plural goes Cambridge Dictionary: plural goes Random House Unabridged Dictionary (dictionary.com): plural goes Google NGram Viewer does not show any results for 'two gos at' or 'two gos at', but does when written as 'goes'. A Google search shows the following results: 'two gos at' = 453 results. 'two goes at' = 19,500 results. 'three gos at' = 252 results. 'three goes at' = 20,200 results. Note that both Google search and Ngram Viewer may show false positives, as Google search, as far as I know, doesn't take punctuation into account when giving search results, ie., full stops, commas. But I think it's safe to assume the consensus is that the plural of go (attempt or try) is 'goes'. I think this is a good question, as somewhere in my head I have an instinct to write it 'gos'. However the answer is gotten easily by checking some dictionaries. Also, if you wrote 'I had three gos at it before giving up', I have a feeling the typical reader probably wouldn't even be surprised by it or notice it particularly as wrong. This is just my opinion. I have this feeling because the '-os'/'-oes' plural ending rules are wildly inconsistent. Potatoes, tomatoes and heroes are correct. But 'photos' and 'burritos' are correct. However most dictionaries seem to list either '-os' or '-oes' ending as acceptable in 'ghetto' and 'mosquito'. Both 'mosquito' and 'burrito' most likely come from Spanish, yet most dictionaries say only 'mosquito' can have plural ending either '-os' or 'oes', whereas they're consistent in listing '-os' for burrito plural. Same goes for 'canto', 'manifesto' and 'grotto'. These words most likely come from Italian, yet the plural of 'canto' is 'cantos', whereas the dictionaries say the plural of 'grotto' or 'manifesto' can end in either '-os' or '-oes'. Addendum As some people have claimed that the rules for -os or -oes plural endings are quite consistent (and I happen to disagree), I've included more examples to show just how unpredictable this can get. The claim generally is basically that borrowed words or imported words from other languages have -os as their endings and most everything else has -oes. The more specific claim is this rule applies for words from Romance languages specifically. embargo (Spanish): Dictionaries show only -oes plural. NGrams show -oes much more common. tornado (Spanish): Dictionaries show either -os or -oes plural. NGrams shows -oes much more common. desperado (Spanish): Dictionaries show either -os or -oes plural. NGrams shows -oes more common. cargo (Spanish) plural possibly as the pants: Dictionaries show either -os or -oes. NGrams shows -oes more common. mango (Portuguese): Dictionaries show both -os or -oes. NGrams shows -oes much more common. domino (uncertain exactly which language, but a Romance one, or maybe directly from Latin): Dictionaries give either -os or -oes. NGrams shows -oes much more common. volcano (Italian): Dictionaries give either -os or -oes. NGrams shows -oes much more common. motto (Italian): Dictionaries give either -os or -oes. NGrams shows -oes to be more common. Words taken directly from Latin many times have -oes plural ending, but not always: veto has plural vetoes torpedo has plural torpedoes However memento overwhelmingly has plural mementos. And embryo is always embryos. Echo, directly from Greek, has plural 'echoes'. hello (native English): Nearly always 'hellos'. no (native English): Much more common as 'nos', ie., 'yeses and nos'. do (native English): Dictionaries give plural as either 'dos' or 'do's'. The results for searches of these terms would be confounding to say the least. weirdo (native English): some dictionaries show both -os or -oes. NGrams shows -os is much more popular Unknown origin: hobo: Dictionaries give either -os or -oes. NGrams show roughly same frequency. gizmo: = Dictionaries only give -os, 'gizmoes' doesn't show anything in NGrams. gazebo: Dictionaries show both -os or -oes. NGrams shows -os more common. So I don't know about anyone else, but I personally need help, in many ways.

Output: yes

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Question: I've read this and this. I know that the underlying question has been answered, my problem is of a different nature: I'm currently writing my master's thesis in CS and my professor thinks that the apostrophe possessive is only applicable to people. He claims to have spoken to a linguist from Cambridge who confirmed his opinion. Neither my professor nor I am a native speaker and the thesis is being written in Germany. Now, I know that he won't care if I just send him a couple of links to the answers here. So my question is: How do I convince my professor? Are there any 'more scientific™' sources that I can point to? Examples of phrases: If each plant's humidity is displayed publicly [...] [...] shows an overview of the node's structure. Due to an issue in the network stack's IPv6 subsystem [...]
Answer: 'Examples of phrases: If each plant's humidity is displayed publicly [...] [...] shows an overview of the node's structure. Due to an issue in the network stack's IPv6 subsystem [...]' These examples are all good English.

Output: no

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Question: Is there a noun or adjective for the following or similar: a pleading before a judge for clemency a prayer before God begging for mercy Is there a better word than 'begging', 'pleading', 'petitioning', etc.?
Answer: In the case of religion I would use the word 'prostrate' or 'prostration'. This is when you kneel down with your body flat before a God or religious icon. I have used the word in non religious instances too but this may not be correct.

Output: no

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Question: Possible Duplicates: How to phrase an asking sentence that must be answered with an ordinal number? Framing a question whose answer is an ordinal number Given that I want to know Barack Obama is the 44th President of U.S.A, how can I frame a question like: The how manyeth president is Barack Obama?
Answer: 'Which President of the United States is (or was) the 44th?' (But I'm not sure I understand the question.) EDIT: Now that I understand the question, I think you might need to put the question as How many Presidents of the US have there been, including the present one? Alternatively, Fill in the blank. 'Barack Obama is the - th President of the US'.

Output: yes

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Question: Does 'egoistic' and 'egotistic' mean the same thing?
Answer: No. While similar, they have some important differences. Consider this note on usage from the Oxford Dictionaries: The words egoism and egotism are frequently confused, as though interchangeable, but there are distinctions worth noting. Both words derive from Latin ego ('I'), the first-person singular pronoun. Egotism, the more commonly used term , denotes an excessive sense of self-importance, too-frequent use of the word 'I,' and general arrogance and boastfulness. Egoism, a more subtle term , is perhaps best left to ethicists, for whom it denotes a view or theory of moral behavior in which self-interest is the root of moral conduct. An egoist, then , might devote considerable attention to introspection, but could be modest about it, whereas an egotist would have an exaggerated sense of the importance of his or her self-analysis, and would have to tell everyone.

Output: no

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Question: We were discussing something like pre-boss era, post-boss era. What word describes the era where the boss is still there?
Answer: The word you might use to describe what is happening now is current. Era is rather a grand way of referring to periods with and without a boss, but I assume there is a tinge of irony in doing so.

Output: yes

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Question: I must admit that I'm unsure whether or not this is the right forum for this question. It may belong to statistics and AI also. If there exists a more suitable forum, then tell me. The thing is, I want to analyse a lot of English text for an AI project (Confabulation theory). Is there an online collection of freely available English texts? Books, news would be preferred scientific texts will properly not do, due to large amounts of math etc.
Answer: And for modern texts, there are a lot of blogs which use various Creative Commons licenses, most commonly CC BY-SA.

Output: no


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Question: What's the difference between the following examples: Neither of my teachers are mathematicians. None of my teachers are mathematicians.
Answer: Neither - not either - implies that there is a choice of only two. So 'neither of my teachers' is only correct if there are exactly two teachers, 'none of my teachers' can be any number.

Output: yes

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Question: If I were to try to achieve something you could say I 'had a go'. If I tried it multiple times, how would I write that down? I had many goes or I had many go's or I had many gos
Answer: The dictionaries I've checked seem to be unanimous that the plural of the noun 'go' is 'goes'. I didn't see one list its plural as 'gos'. However, I didn't check all dictionaries. American Heritage Dictionary: n. pl. goes Collins Dictionary: n, pl goes Merriam-Webster Dictionary: plural goes Cambridge Dictionary: plural goes Random House Unabridged Dictionary (dictionary.com): plural goes Google NGram Viewer does not show any results for 'two gos at' or 'two gos at', but does when written as 'goes'. A Google search shows the following results: 'two gos at' = 453 results. 'two goes at' = 19,500 results. 'three gos at' = 252 results. 'three goes at' = 20,200 results. Note that both Google search and Ngram Viewer may show false positives, as Google search, as far as I know, doesn't take punctuation into account when giving search results, ie., full stops, commas. But I think it's safe to assume the consensus is that the plural of go (attempt or try) is 'goes'. I think this is a good question, as somewhere in my head I have an instinct to write it 'gos'. However the answer is gotten easily by checking some dictionaries. Also, if you wrote 'I had three gos at it before giving up', I have a feeling the typical reader probably wouldn't even be surprised by it or notice it particularly as wrong. This is just my opinion. I have this feeling because the '-os'/'-oes' plural ending rules are wildly inconsistent. Potatoes, tomatoes and heroes are correct. But 'photos' and 'burritos' are correct. However most dictionaries seem to list either '-os' or '-oes' ending as acceptable in 'ghetto' and 'mosquito'. Both 'mosquito' and 'burrito' most likely come from Spanish, yet most dictionaries say only 'mosquito' can have plural ending either '-os' or 'oes', whereas they're consistent in listing '-os' for burrito plural. Same goes for 'canto', 'manifesto' and 'grotto'. These words most likely come from Italian, yet the plural of 'canto' is 'cantos', whereas the dictionaries say the plural of 'grotto' or 'manifesto' can end in either '-os' or '-oes'. Addendum As some people have claimed that the rules for -os or -oes plural endings are quite consistent (and I happen to disagree), I've included more examples to show just how unpredictable this can get. The claim generally is basically that borrowed words or imported words from other languages have -os as their endings and most everything else has -oes. The more specific claim is this rule applies for words from Romance languages specifically. embargo (Spanish): Dictionaries show only -oes plural. NGrams show -oes much more common. tornado (Spanish): Dictionaries show either -os or -oes plural. NGrams shows -oes much more common. desperado (Spanish): Dictionaries show either -os or -oes plural. NGrams shows -oes more common. cargo (Spanish) plural possibly as the pants: Dictionaries show either -os or -oes. NGrams shows -oes more common. mango (Portuguese): Dictionaries show both -os or -oes. NGrams shows -oes much more common. domino (uncertain exactly which language, but a Romance one, or maybe directly from Latin): Dictionaries give either -os or -oes. NGrams shows -oes much more common. volcano (Italian): Dictionaries give either -os or -oes. NGrams shows -oes much more common. motto (Italian): Dictionaries give either -os or -oes. NGrams shows -oes to be more common. Words taken directly from Latin many times have -oes plural ending, but not always: veto has plural vetoes torpedo has plural torpedoes However memento overwhelmingly has plural mementos. And embryo is always embryos. Echo, directly from Greek, has plural 'echoes'. hello (native English): Nearly always 'hellos'. no (native English): Much more common as 'nos', ie., 'yeses and nos'. do (native English): Dictionaries give plural as either 'dos' or 'do's'. The results for searches of these terms would be confounding to say the least. weirdo (native English): some dictionaries show both -os or -oes. NGrams shows -os is much more popular Unknown origin: hobo: Dictionaries give either -os or -oes. NGrams show roughly same frequency. gizmo: = Dictionaries only give -os, 'gizmoes' doesn't show anything in NGrams. gazebo: Dictionaries show both -os or -oes. NGrams shows -os more common. So I don't know about anyone else, but I personally need help, in many ways.

Output: yes

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Question: I've read this and this. I know that the underlying question has been answered, my problem is of a different nature: I'm currently writing my master's thesis in CS and my professor thinks that the apostrophe possessive is only applicable to people. He claims to have spoken to a linguist from Cambridge who confirmed his opinion. Neither my professor nor I am a native speaker and the thesis is being written in Germany. Now, I know that he won't care if I just send him a couple of links to the answers here. So my question is: How do I convince my professor? Are there any 'more scientific™' sources that I can point to? Examples of phrases: If each plant's humidity is displayed publicly [...] [...] shows an overview of the node's structure. Due to an issue in the network stack's IPv6 subsystem [...]
Answer: 'Examples of phrases: If each plant's humidity is displayed publicly [...] [...] shows an overview of the node's structure. Due to an issue in the network stack's IPv6 subsystem [...]' These examples are all good English.

Output: no

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Question: Is there a noun or adjective for the following or similar: a pleading before a judge for clemency a prayer before God begging for mercy Is there a better word than 'begging', 'pleading', 'petitioning', etc.?
Answer: In the case of religion I would use the word 'prostrate' or 'prostration'. This is when you kneel down with your body flat before a God or religious icon. I have used the word in non religious instances too but this may not be correct.

Output: no

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Question: Possible Duplicates: How to phrase an asking sentence that must be answered with an ordinal number? Framing a question whose answer is an ordinal number Given that I want to know Barack Obama is the 44th President of U.S.A, how can I frame a question like: The how manyeth president is Barack Obama?
Answer: 'Which President of the United States is (or was) the 44th?' (But I'm not sure I understand the question.) EDIT: Now that I understand the question, I think you might need to put the question as How many Presidents of the US have there been, including the present one? Alternatively, Fill in the blank. 'Barack Obama is the - th President of the US'.

Output: yes

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Question: Does 'egoistic' and 'egotistic' mean the same thing?
Answer: No. While similar, they have some important differences. Consider this note on usage from the Oxford Dictionaries: The words egoism and egotism are frequently confused, as though interchangeable, but there are distinctions worth noting. Both words derive from Latin ego ('I'), the first-person singular pronoun. Egotism, the more commonly used term , denotes an excessive sense of self-importance, too-frequent use of the word 'I,' and general arrogance and boastfulness. Egoism, a more subtle term , is perhaps best left to ethicists, for whom it denotes a view or theory of moral behavior in which self-interest is the root of moral conduct. An egoist, then , might devote considerable attention to introspection, but could be modest about it, whereas an egotist would have an exaggerated sense of the importance of his or her self-analysis, and would have to tell everyone.

Output: no

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Question: We were discussing something like pre-boss era, post-boss era. What word describes the era where the boss is still there?
Answer: The word you might use to describe what is happening now is current. Era is rather a grand way of referring to periods with and without a boss, but I assume there is a tinge of irony in doing so.

Output: yes

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Question: English isn't my mother tongue, and when we recently talked to a native speaker (during some company audit), he pointed out that the plural word "trainings" is actually wrong (he pointed that it is a very common mistake and was almost amused by it). I couldn't understand why and wondered what the correct plural of "training" would be. Online Dictionaries/Thesaurus don't answer it, so it's probably another opinion-based statement. I haven't found a source to back it up, though.
Answer: I agree with Mick that training is an uncountable noun. In the example given by Mr. Fine of a specific training event allowing training to become countable, I disagree. In the case of becoming countable, the portion being counted is the event. Therefor, it would be "there are multiple training events available at the pavilion" (or whatever). I see many cases where much effort is made to "fix" the plural when a simple rewording will eliminate the contentious context and allow an, arguably, better flow by using the standard form.

Output: no


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Question: What's the difference between the following examples: Neither of my teachers are mathematicians. None of my teachers are mathematicians.
Answer: Neither - not either - implies that there is a choice of only two. So 'neither of my teachers' is only correct if there are exactly two teachers, 'none of my teachers' can be any number.

Output: yes

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Question: If I were to try to achieve something you could say I 'had a go'. If I tried it multiple times, how would I write that down? I had many goes or I had many go's or I had many gos
Answer: The dictionaries I've checked seem to be unanimous that the plural of the noun 'go' is 'goes'. I didn't see one list its plural as 'gos'. However, I didn't check all dictionaries. American Heritage Dictionary: n. pl. goes Collins Dictionary: n, pl goes Merriam-Webster Dictionary: plural goes Cambridge Dictionary: plural goes Random House Unabridged Dictionary (dictionary.com): plural goes Google NGram Viewer does not show any results for 'two gos at' or 'two gos at', but does when written as 'goes'. A Google search shows the following results: 'two gos at' = 453 results. 'two goes at' = 19,500 results. 'three gos at' = 252 results. 'three goes at' = 20,200 results. Note that both Google search and Ngram Viewer may show false positives, as Google search, as far as I know, doesn't take punctuation into account when giving search results, ie., full stops, commas. But I think it's safe to assume the consensus is that the plural of go (attempt or try) is 'goes'. I think this is a good question, as somewhere in my head I have an instinct to write it 'gos'. However the answer is gotten easily by checking some dictionaries. Also, if you wrote 'I had three gos at it before giving up', I have a feeling the typical reader probably wouldn't even be surprised by it or notice it particularly as wrong. This is just my opinion. I have this feeling because the '-os'/'-oes' plural ending rules are wildly inconsistent. Potatoes, tomatoes and heroes are correct. But 'photos' and 'burritos' are correct. However most dictionaries seem to list either '-os' or '-oes' ending as acceptable in 'ghetto' and 'mosquito'. Both 'mosquito' and 'burrito' most likely come from Spanish, yet most dictionaries say only 'mosquito' can have plural ending either '-os' or 'oes', whereas they're consistent in listing '-os' for burrito plural. Same goes for 'canto', 'manifesto' and 'grotto'. These words most likely come from Italian, yet the plural of 'canto' is 'cantos', whereas the dictionaries say the plural of 'grotto' or 'manifesto' can end in either '-os' or '-oes'. Addendum As some people have claimed that the rules for -os or -oes plural endings are quite consistent (and I happen to disagree), I've included more examples to show just how unpredictable this can get. The claim generally is basically that borrowed words or imported words from other languages have -os as their endings and most everything else has -oes. The more specific claim is this rule applies for words from Romance languages specifically. embargo (Spanish): Dictionaries show only -oes plural. NGrams show -oes much more common. tornado (Spanish): Dictionaries show either -os or -oes plural. NGrams shows -oes much more common. desperado (Spanish): Dictionaries show either -os or -oes plural. NGrams shows -oes more common. cargo (Spanish) plural possibly as the pants: Dictionaries show either -os or -oes. NGrams shows -oes more common. mango (Portuguese): Dictionaries show both -os or -oes. NGrams shows -oes much more common. domino (uncertain exactly which language, but a Romance one, or maybe directly from Latin): Dictionaries give either -os or -oes. NGrams shows -oes much more common. volcano (Italian): Dictionaries give either -os or -oes. NGrams shows -oes much more common. motto (Italian): Dictionaries give either -os or -oes. NGrams shows -oes to be more common. Words taken directly from Latin many times have -oes plural ending, but not always: veto has plural vetoes torpedo has plural torpedoes However memento overwhelmingly has plural mementos. And embryo is always embryos. Echo, directly from Greek, has plural 'echoes'. hello (native English): Nearly always 'hellos'. no (native English): Much more common as 'nos', ie., 'yeses and nos'. do (native English): Dictionaries give plural as either 'dos' or 'do's'. The results for searches of these terms would be confounding to say the least. weirdo (native English): some dictionaries show both -os or -oes. NGrams shows -os is much more popular Unknown origin: hobo: Dictionaries give either -os or -oes. NGrams show roughly same frequency. gizmo: = Dictionaries only give -os, 'gizmoes' doesn't show anything in NGrams. gazebo: Dictionaries show both -os or -oes. NGrams shows -os more common. So I don't know about anyone else, but I personally need help, in many ways.

Output: yes

Input:
Question: I've read this and this. I know that the underlying question has been answered, my problem is of a different nature: I'm currently writing my master's thesis in CS and my professor thinks that the apostrophe possessive is only applicable to people. He claims to have spoken to a linguist from Cambridge who confirmed his opinion. Neither my professor nor I am a native speaker and the thesis is being written in Germany. Now, I know that he won't care if I just send him a couple of links to the answers here. So my question is: How do I convince my professor? Are there any 'more scientific™' sources that I can point to? Examples of phrases: If each plant's humidity is displayed publicly [...] [...] shows an overview of the node's structure. Due to an issue in the network stack's IPv6 subsystem [...]
Answer: 'Examples of phrases: If each plant's humidity is displayed publicly [...] [...] shows an overview of the node's structure. Due to an issue in the network stack's IPv6 subsystem [...]' These examples are all good English.

Output: no

Input:
Question: Is there a noun or adjective for the following or similar: a pleading before a judge for clemency a prayer before God begging for mercy Is there a better word than 'begging', 'pleading', 'petitioning', etc.?
Answer: In the case of religion I would use the word 'prostrate' or 'prostration'. This is when you kneel down with your body flat before a God or religious icon. I have used the word in non religious instances too but this may not be correct.

Output: no

Input:
Question: Possible Duplicates: How to phrase an asking sentence that must be answered with an ordinal number? Framing a question whose answer is an ordinal number Given that I want to know Barack Obama is the 44th President of U.S.A, how can I frame a question like: The how manyeth president is Barack Obama?
Answer: 'Which President of the United States is (or was) the 44th?' (But I'm not sure I understand the question.) EDIT: Now that I understand the question, I think you might need to put the question as How many Presidents of the US have there been, including the present one? Alternatively, Fill in the blank. 'Barack Obama is the - th President of the US'.

Output: yes

Input:
Question: Does 'egoistic' and 'egotistic' mean the same thing?
Answer: No. While similar, they have some important differences. Consider this note on usage from the Oxford Dictionaries: The words egoism and egotism are frequently confused, as though interchangeable, but there are distinctions worth noting. Both words derive from Latin ego ('I'), the first-person singular pronoun. Egotism, the more commonly used term , denotes an excessive sense of self-importance, too-frequent use of the word 'I,' and general arrogance and boastfulness. Egoism, a more subtle term , is perhaps best left to ethicists, for whom it denotes a view or theory of moral behavior in which self-interest is the root of moral conduct. An egoist, then , might devote considerable attention to introspection, but could be modest about it, whereas an egotist would have an exaggerated sense of the importance of his or her self-analysis, and would have to tell everyone.

Output: no

Input:
Question: We were discussing something like pre-boss era, post-boss era. What word describes the era where the boss is still there?
Answer: The word you might use to describe what is happening now is current. Era is rather a grand way of referring to periods with and without a boss, but I assume there is a tinge of irony in doing so.

Output: yes

Input:
Question: When it comes to cities and boats named after saints, it seems that "Santa" is always female and "San" is always male. e.g. Male Saints: San Diego, San Francisco, San Antonio Female Saints: Santa Barbara, Santa Maria So why isn't "Santa Claus" a woman like all the other "Santa"s?
Answer: The city names you quote are all derived from Spanish, where "San" (or "Santo", as @tchrist clarifies below) is the male inflection and "Santa" the female one. However, Santa Claus isn't derived from Spanish, but from Dutch, where it was originally rendered as Sante Klaas, and was modified to Santa when it was adopted into English (and from English, to the rest of the world). Here's Etymonline's take on it: from dialectal Dutch Sante Klaas, from Middle Dutch Sinter Niklaas "Saint Nicholas," English, like all other languages, borrows words from many sources, and they often carry over remnants of their original grammar or usage, even when it makes for inconsistent usage in English.

Output: yes


Input:
Question: What's the difference between the following examples: Neither of my teachers are mathematicians. None of my teachers are mathematicians.
Answer: Neither - not either - implies that there is a choice of only two. So 'neither of my teachers' is only correct if there are exactly two teachers, 'none of my teachers' can be any number.

Output: yes

Input:
Question: If I were to try to achieve something you could say I 'had a go'. If I tried it multiple times, how would I write that down? I had many goes or I had many go's or I had many gos
Answer: The dictionaries I've checked seem to be unanimous that the plural of the noun 'go' is 'goes'. I didn't see one list its plural as 'gos'. However, I didn't check all dictionaries. American Heritage Dictionary: n. pl. goes Collins Dictionary: n, pl goes Merriam-Webster Dictionary: plural goes Cambridge Dictionary: plural goes Random House Unabridged Dictionary (dictionary.com): plural goes Google NGram Viewer does not show any results for 'two gos at' or 'two gos at', but does when written as 'goes'. A Google search shows the following results: 'two gos at' = 453 results. 'two goes at' = 19,500 results. 'three gos at' = 252 results. 'three goes at' = 20,200 results. Note that both Google search and Ngram Viewer may show false positives, as Google search, as far as I know, doesn't take punctuation into account when giving search results, ie., full stops, commas. But I think it's safe to assume the consensus is that the plural of go (attempt or try) is 'goes'. I think this is a good question, as somewhere in my head I have an instinct to write it 'gos'. However the answer is gotten easily by checking some dictionaries. Also, if you wrote 'I had three gos at it before giving up', I have a feeling the typical reader probably wouldn't even be surprised by it or notice it particularly as wrong. This is just my opinion. I have this feeling because the '-os'/'-oes' plural ending rules are wildly inconsistent. Potatoes, tomatoes and heroes are correct. But 'photos' and 'burritos' are correct. However most dictionaries seem to list either '-os' or '-oes' ending as acceptable in 'ghetto' and 'mosquito'. Both 'mosquito' and 'burrito' most likely come from Spanish, yet most dictionaries say only 'mosquito' can have plural ending either '-os' or 'oes', whereas they're consistent in listing '-os' for burrito plural. Same goes for 'canto', 'manifesto' and 'grotto'. These words most likely come from Italian, yet the plural of 'canto' is 'cantos', whereas the dictionaries say the plural of 'grotto' or 'manifesto' can end in either '-os' or '-oes'. Addendum As some people have claimed that the rules for -os or -oes plural endings are quite consistent (and I happen to disagree), I've included more examples to show just how unpredictable this can get. The claim generally is basically that borrowed words or imported words from other languages have -os as their endings and most everything else has -oes. The more specific claim is this rule applies for words from Romance languages specifically. embargo (Spanish): Dictionaries show only -oes plural. NGrams show -oes much more common. tornado (Spanish): Dictionaries show either -os or -oes plural. NGrams shows -oes much more common. desperado (Spanish): Dictionaries show either -os or -oes plural. NGrams shows -oes more common. cargo (Spanish) plural possibly as the pants: Dictionaries show either -os or -oes. NGrams shows -oes more common. mango (Portuguese): Dictionaries show both -os or -oes. NGrams shows -oes much more common. domino (uncertain exactly which language, but a Romance one, or maybe directly from Latin): Dictionaries give either -os or -oes. NGrams shows -oes much more common. volcano (Italian): Dictionaries give either -os or -oes. NGrams shows -oes much more common. motto (Italian): Dictionaries give either -os or -oes. NGrams shows -oes to be more common. Words taken directly from Latin many times have -oes plural ending, but not always: veto has plural vetoes torpedo has plural torpedoes However memento overwhelmingly has plural mementos. And embryo is always embryos. Echo, directly from Greek, has plural 'echoes'. hello (native English): Nearly always 'hellos'. no (native English): Much more common as 'nos', ie., 'yeses and nos'. do (native English): Dictionaries give plural as either 'dos' or 'do's'. The results for searches of these terms would be confounding to say the least. weirdo (native English): some dictionaries show both -os or -oes. NGrams shows -os is much more popular Unknown origin: hobo: Dictionaries give either -os or -oes. NGrams show roughly same frequency. gizmo: = Dictionaries only give -os, 'gizmoes' doesn't show anything in NGrams. gazebo: Dictionaries show both -os or -oes. NGrams shows -os more common. So I don't know about anyone else, but I personally need help, in many ways.

Output: yes

Input:
Question: I've read this and this. I know that the underlying question has been answered, my problem is of a different nature: I'm currently writing my master's thesis in CS and my professor thinks that the apostrophe possessive is only applicable to people. He claims to have spoken to a linguist from Cambridge who confirmed his opinion. Neither my professor nor I am a native speaker and the thesis is being written in Germany. Now, I know that he won't care if I just send him a couple of links to the answers here. So my question is: How do I convince my professor? Are there any 'more scientific™' sources that I can point to? Examples of phrases: If each plant's humidity is displayed publicly [...] [...] shows an overview of the node's structure. Due to an issue in the network stack's IPv6 subsystem [...]
Answer: 'Examples of phrases: If each plant's humidity is displayed publicly [...] [...] shows an overview of the node's structure. Due to an issue in the network stack's IPv6 subsystem [...]' These examples are all good English.

Output: no

Input:
Question: Is there a noun or adjective for the following or similar: a pleading before a judge for clemency a prayer before God begging for mercy Is there a better word than 'begging', 'pleading', 'petitioning', etc.?
Answer: In the case of religion I would use the word 'prostrate' or 'prostration'. This is when you kneel down with your body flat before a God or religious icon. I have used the word in non religious instances too but this may not be correct.

Output: no

Input:
Question: Possible Duplicates: How to phrase an asking sentence that must be answered with an ordinal number? Framing a question whose answer is an ordinal number Given that I want to know Barack Obama is the 44th President of U.S.A, how can I frame a question like: The how manyeth president is Barack Obama?
Answer: 'Which President of the United States is (or was) the 44th?' (But I'm not sure I understand the question.) EDIT: Now that I understand the question, I think you might need to put the question as How many Presidents of the US have there been, including the present one? Alternatively, Fill in the blank. 'Barack Obama is the - th President of the US'.

Output: yes

Input:
Question: Does 'egoistic' and 'egotistic' mean the same thing?
Answer: No. While similar, they have some important differences. Consider this note on usage from the Oxford Dictionaries: The words egoism and egotism are frequently confused, as though interchangeable, but there are distinctions worth noting. Both words derive from Latin ego ('I'), the first-person singular pronoun. Egotism, the more commonly used term , denotes an excessive sense of self-importance, too-frequent use of the word 'I,' and general arrogance and boastfulness. Egoism, a more subtle term , is perhaps best left to ethicists, for whom it denotes a view or theory of moral behavior in which self-interest is the root of moral conduct. An egoist, then , might devote considerable attention to introspection, but could be modest about it, whereas an egotist would have an exaggerated sense of the importance of his or her self-analysis, and would have to tell everyone.

Output: no

Input:
Question: We were discussing something like pre-boss era, post-boss era. What word describes the era where the boss is still there?
Answer: The word you might use to describe what is happening now is current. Era is rather a grand way of referring to periods with and without a boss, but I assume there is a tinge of irony in doing so.

Output: yes

Input:
Question: E.g. is short for exempli gratia, and is in common use to introduce an example within a sentence. Submit a sample of academic writing, e.g., a dissertation chapter. However, some authors use ex. or ex: (short for "example") for the same purpose, and this form is listed in some authorities like the Wiktionary. Submit a sample of academic writing, ex: a dissertation chapter. I know they both roughly mean "example", but which one should I use, and when? Are there connotations associated with one or the other? This question has been asked elsewhere, and this very answer comes up when you ask Google about the difference. It would be good to get an EL&U answer for it.
Answer: "Ex." is not very common, but it may be used to refer to a cited example, eg "See ex. 3". "E.g." is much more common, and is used to introduce an example, or series of examples. In speech, it is usually replaced by "for example".

Output: no


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In this task, you are given a Reddit post as a text. Your task is to generate a title for this text. The title should start with "TIFU by", followed by a situation that caused humor. The title should contain 7-12 words, ideally.

Input:
Text: title speaks for itself really...
i just wasted $1500 of my parents' money.
i feel terrible.

edit: i guess it wasn't that i took the wrong class, but the class i was taking wouldn't transfer credits over to my university. so really it was my negligence to do more research in the matter. gg

Output: TIFU by taking the wrong class for 2 weeks and only realizing it today

Explanation: This title is appropriate for the given text post because the focus of this post is about a humorous situation caused by "taking the wrong class".

Input:
Text: this happened several years ago. i had a friend "jack" (more like an acquaintance) who got married several years ago. i attended the wedding in houston and all was good. i had moved to chicago shortly after and didn't really keep in touch. about 2 years later, i was in houston over the holidays and ran into him at a family holiday party. the conversation went like this:

"hey jack, it's been a long time! how are you doing?! how's married life treating you?"

"i got divorced."

"oh."  (fml, awkwardness ensues). feeling like a jackass, i apologized and did my best to end the conversation quickly.

Output: TIFU by asking a friend about his married life

Explanation: This title is appropriate for the given text post because the focus of this post is about a humorous situation caused by "asking a friend about his married life who is divorced".

Input:
Text: this happened a couple of months ago. in my office we have pcs to work upon. i was due for a location change so i thought it would be good to just put the important data onto some shared folder and then access it from the other location when i reach there. i zipped all the official data and just when i was about to upload the company policy came to my mind. password protect all your data when on shared drives. i protected it using 7zip and put in onto the drive. reached the other location, opened the drive and realized i don't remember the password. tried everything that i could possibly think of (even 12345 & qwerty), even email passwords but it just would not open. could not even use cracks or anything in company systems. sadly gave up hope and lost around 3gb useful data. :/

ps: the shared folder was only accessible to me. setting a password for a file in a folder that is only accessible to me. it could not get worse than this.

Output: TIFU by forgetting password

Explanation: This title is appropriate for the given text post because the focus of this post is about a humorous situation caused by "forgetting password".

Input: Text: i applied for a job a week or two back thinking that there was no way i was going to get it b/c i didn't 100% match up with the qualifications. i went to the 2nd round interview to practice/ know what to expect for next time. surprise! i am offered the job, much rejoicing. being the paranoid sort, i asked the people i told not to babble about it, until after i had done the drug test and started training. i don't do drugs but i just wanted everything set up before people got excited for me. which brings us to today. i go to in-processing appointment do the whole " this is my social security card" dance.  and then i must be tested. not worried, aside from wondering if i drank enough water. i am ready to go even have my temporary new parking pass in my hands. and…i test positive for opioids. i am totally shocked for a second. she asks if i am on meds (and i am but not the kind that would show up on the test.) and then i remember. breakfast. the everything bagel and cream cheese i eat almost every morning. (my digestive system is weird so what i eat for breakfast is kind of limited.) soo…they took my parking pass away and told me they would call me later in the week, after further testing. i have no idea what levels i have going on b/c again i eat them almost every morning.

Output: TIFU by eating a pumpkin-pie.

Explanation: This title is inappropriate for the given text post because the focus of this post is about a humorous situation caused by "eating a bagel" and not by "eating a pumpkin-pie.".

Input: Text: this happened about 30 minutes ago.  i am a 17 year old senior in high school with an important paper due tommorow.  i was trying to relax my nerves and get the creative juices flowing by lighting a candle. the pleasant scent did relax me and allowed me to bust out half this paper, while at the same time forcing me into a deep slumber. fast forward 45 mins and mama kirrydragons comes into the room screaming and yelling that i need to finish this paper. i frantically get up and try to focus. the candle is still lit and needs to be disposed. now in my half-asleep state i decided to dump all the wax down my bathroom sink. sadly wax has this amazing ability to cool and solidify in .3 seconds. now im frantically trying to finish this paper and pour drain-o through a clogged sink.

Output: TIFU by fixing a sink.

Explanation: This title is inappropriate for the given text post because the focus of this post is about a humorous situation caused by "breaking a sink" and not by "fixing a sink.".

Input:
Text: i (22f) am a server at a restaurant. last week we had lone male customer come in, and asked to be seated by the window (my area of serving) we immediately hit it off. he was older than me, had a sexy scottish accent, hilariously witty and very out-going. i was thrilled when he left his number on the back of the bill. fast forward one week: after a few small talk texts we decided to meet up, and agree at 3:00pm at the city fountain, right downtown in a busy area. i arrive a few minutes early, and decide to sit in the shade of a nearby statue and wait. within seconds an older, relativley handsome guy wearing sunglasses approaches me. "hey, it's great to see you!"
i smile and greet him, and he immediatley lunges into some big 5 minute long story about a fender bender he got into on his way driving to meet me, and apologized profusseley for being late. by this point i could clearly tell he didn't have a scottish accent. "you don't have nearly as much of an accent that i thought you did, am i crazy?", he laughed and gave me a weird look, agreeing how i must be crazy because he has never had an accent. we continue walking slowly on the downtown strip, making more small talk. by this point i had a feeling something was off.. i could've sworn the accent was the main reason i had been drawn to him in the first place. when he asks me how to produce my name, as the "o with the dots" is relativley uncommon in our country. i say my name (which has the letter o not ö) and he is immediatley giving me a weird look. we stop in the middle of the pathway surrounded by people walking. he takes off his sunglasses, revealing an unfamiliar face. you're not ben are you?" i ask awkwardly, to which he shakes his head. we both burst out in laughter, realizing we clearly fucked up. "i'm supposed to be meeting a girl i've met online, down bedside that statue at 2:30! she's a redhead but i haven't a picture of her face!" we speed walk back to the fountain, both almost in tears due to the hilariously embarrassing moment that we found ourselves in. we part ways just before the fountain, and i see my real date sitting reading a book. didnt mention the ridiculous event that happened moments before, and had a terrific date.

Output: TIFU by going on a date with my boyfriend

Explanation: This title is inappropriate for the given text post because the focus of this post is about a humorous situation caused by "going on a date with the wrong stranger" and not with "person's boyfriend".

Input:
Text: sorry for the formatting, i'm on mobile
mandatory "this happened 3years ago"

so this is my story. i live in a third world country (bangladesh) where gaming consoles and accessories are extremely overpriced. our family goes on yearly trips to australia to visit family and friends. being the avid gamer i am, i decided to buy the all new ps4. i had saved up my birthday money from the last 2 years and with a little bit of help from my mom, i would be able to afford the console. so when i arrive in australia, the first thing i do is i get the much awaited console in a bundle with killzone shadow fall, fifa 14 and need for speed rivals. i play on the console a couple of times before packing it up in the box itself. since the trip is so long, we have to stop by singapore for a couple of days. i travelled with the ps4 box like a briefcase and used it as hand luggage. so the day my family and i leave for bangladesh, we leave our luggage at the airport before, so we don't have to deal with the hassle with bringing them along. i only have my backpack and ps4 box in my hand as i move into immigration. i decided to put the box in one of those trolley things. as we entered the waiting room for the flight, i had returned the trolley with my ps4 in it. unbeknownst to me, i hoarded the plane all excited to play my console back at home. it was then i realised that i had lost my ps4. thats $550 aud i'll never get back and a broken heart.

Output: TIFU By losing my PS4

TIFU by buying a console in a third world country.


Input:
Text: title speaks for itself really...
i just wasted $1500 of my parents' money.
i feel terrible.

edit: i guess it wasn't that i took the wrong class, but the class i was taking wouldn't transfer credits over to my university. so really it was my negligence to do more research in the matter. gg

Output: TIFU by taking the wrong class for 2 weeks and only realizing it today

Input:
Text: this happened several years ago. i had a friend "jack" (more like an acquaintance) who got married several years ago. i attended the wedding in houston and all was good. i had moved to chicago shortly after and didn't really keep in touch. about 2 years later, i was in houston over the holidays and ran into him at a family holiday party. the conversation went like this:

"hey jack, it's been a long time! how are you doing?! how's married life treating you?"

"i got divorced."

"oh."  (fml, awkwardness ensues). feeling like a jackass, i apologized and did my best to end the conversation quickly.

Output: TIFU by asking a friend about his married life

Input:
Text: this happened a couple of months ago. in my office we have pcs to work upon. i was due for a location change so i thought it would be good to just put the important data onto some shared folder and then access it from the other location when i reach there. i zipped all the official data and just when i was about to upload the company policy came to my mind. password protect all your data when on shared drives. i protected it using 7zip and put in onto the drive. reached the other location, opened the drive and realized i don't remember the password. tried everything that i could possibly think of (even 12345 & qwerty), even email passwords but it just would not open. could not even use cracks or anything in company systems. sadly gave up hope and lost around 3gb useful data. :/

ps: the shared folder was only accessible to me. setting a password for a file in a folder that is only accessible to me. it could not get worse than this.

Output: TIFU by forgetting password

Input: Text: i applied for a job a week or two back thinking that there was no way i was going to get it b/c i didn't 100% match up with the qualifications. i went to the 2nd round interview to practice/ know what to expect for next time. surprise! i am offered the job, much rejoicing. being the paranoid sort, i asked the people i told not to babble about it, until after i had done the drug test and started training. i don't do drugs but i just wanted everything set up before people got excited for me. which brings us to today. i go to in-processing appointment do the whole " this is my social security card" dance.  and then i must be tested. not worried, aside from wondering if i drank enough water. i am ready to go even have my temporary new parking pass in my hands. and…i test positive for opioids. i am totally shocked for a second. she asks if i am on meds (and i am but not the kind that would show up on the test.) and then i remember. breakfast. the everything bagel and cream cheese i eat almost every morning. (my digestive system is weird so what i eat for breakfast is kind of limited.) soo…they took my parking pass away and told me they would call me later in the week, after further testing. i have no idea what levels i have going on b/c again i eat them almost every morning.

Output: TIFU by eating a pumpkin-pie.

Input: Text: this happened about 30 minutes ago.  i am a 17 year old senior in high school with an important paper due tommorow.  i was trying to relax my nerves and get the creative juices flowing by lighting a candle. the pleasant scent did relax me and allowed me to bust out half this paper, while at the same time forcing me into a deep slumber. fast forward 45 mins and mama kirrydragons comes into the room screaming and yelling that i need to finish this paper. i frantically get up and try to focus. the candle is still lit and needs to be disposed. now in my half-asleep state i decided to dump all the wax down my bathroom sink. sadly wax has this amazing ability to cool and solidify in .3 seconds. now im frantically trying to finish this paper and pour drain-o through a clogged sink.

Output: TIFU by fixing a sink.

Input:
Text: i (22f) am a server at a restaurant. last week we had lone male customer come in, and asked to be seated by the window (my area of serving) we immediately hit it off. he was older than me, had a sexy scottish accent, hilariously witty and very out-going. i was thrilled when he left his number on the back of the bill. fast forward one week: after a few small talk texts we decided to meet up, and agree at 3:00pm at the city fountain, right downtown in a busy area. i arrive a few minutes early, and decide to sit in the shade of a nearby statue and wait. within seconds an older, relativley handsome guy wearing sunglasses approaches me. "hey, it's great to see you!"
i smile and greet him, and he immediatley lunges into some big 5 minute long story about a fender bender he got into on his way driving to meet me, and apologized profusseley for being late. by this point i could clearly tell he didn't have a scottish accent. "you don't have nearly as much of an accent that i thought you did, am i crazy?", he laughed and gave me a weird look, agreeing how i must be crazy because he has never had an accent. we continue walking slowly on the downtown strip, making more small talk. by this point i had a feeling something was off.. i could've sworn the accent was the main reason i had been drawn to him in the first place. when he asks me how to produce my name, as the "o with the dots" is relativley uncommon in our country. i say my name (which has the letter o not ö) and he is immediatley giving me a weird look. we stop in the middle of the pathway surrounded by people walking. he takes off his sunglasses, revealing an unfamiliar face. you're not ben are you?" i ask awkwardly, to which he shakes his head. we both burst out in laughter, realizing we clearly fucked up. "i'm supposed to be meeting a girl i've met online, down bedside that statue at 2:30! she's a redhead but i haven't a picture of her face!" we speed walk back to the fountain, both almost in tears due to the hilariously embarrassing moment that we found ourselves in. we part ways just before the fountain, and i see my real date sitting reading a book. didnt mention the ridiculous event that happened moments before, and had a terrific date.

Output: TIFU by going on a date with my boyfriend

Input:
Text: after driving for 6 hours in canada, i waited over 2 hours to get through customs.  i was especially irritated at this point because a bunch of asshats were using the truck lanes to get ahead and cut in at the last minute.  when it was finally my turn the border patrol dude turns the green light to red and decides to take a 10 min smoke break.

http://imgur.com/g7kymog

i know he is entitled to one but it put me over the edge.  when it was my turn, i said as nicely as i could with a smile "did you enjoy your cigarette break?"  he said that he did.  after checking my passport and asking me the basic questions, he asked if i was under the influence of any drugs or alcohol.  he said my eyes were red and glassy.  he got out of his booth and escorted me to another area where my car was searched and i was harassed with a bunch of bs questions.  i knew they weren't really searching because it was hardly thorough.  the car next to me had all its luggages and contents spread out on the ground.  they just did a quick visual of mine even though i had 4 boxes that were sealed with tape.  they just wanted to teach me a lesson.  and it worked.  i felt like such a dumb ass.

edit: meant tape, not rape.  doh

Output: Tifu by asking a border patrol officer if he enjoyed his cigarette


Input:
Text: title speaks for itself really...
i just wasted $1500 of my parents' money.
i feel terrible.

edit: i guess it wasn't that i took the wrong class, but the class i was taking wouldn't transfer credits over to my university. so really it was my negligence to do more research in the matter. gg

Output: TIFU by taking the wrong class for 2 weeks and only realizing it today

Input:
Text: this happened several years ago. i had a friend "jack" (more like an acquaintance) who got married several years ago. i attended the wedding in houston and all was good. i had moved to chicago shortly after and didn't really keep in touch. about 2 years later, i was in houston over the holidays and ran into him at a family holiday party. the conversation went like this:

"hey jack, it's been a long time! how are you doing?! how's married life treating you?"

"i got divorced."

"oh."  (fml, awkwardness ensues). feeling like a jackass, i apologized and did my best to end the conversation quickly.

Output: TIFU by asking a friend about his married life

Input:
Text: this happened a couple of months ago. in my office we have pcs to work upon. i was due for a location change so i thought it would be good to just put the important data onto some shared folder and then access it from the other location when i reach there. i zipped all the official data and just when i was about to upload the company policy came to my mind. password protect all your data when on shared drives. i protected it using 7zip and put in onto the drive. reached the other location, opened the drive and realized i don't remember the password. tried everything that i could possibly think of (even 12345 & qwerty), even email passwords but it just would not open. could not even use cracks or anything in company systems. sadly gave up hope and lost around 3gb useful data. :/

ps: the shared folder was only accessible to me. setting a password for a file in a folder that is only accessible to me. it could not get worse than this.

Output: TIFU by forgetting password

Input: Text: i applied for a job a week or two back thinking that there was no way i was going to get it b/c i didn't 100% match up with the qualifications. i went to the 2nd round interview to practice/ know what to expect for next time. surprise! i am offered the job, much rejoicing. being the paranoid sort, i asked the people i told not to babble about it, until after i had done the drug test and started training. i don't do drugs but i just wanted everything set up before people got excited for me. which brings us to today. i go to in-processing appointment do the whole " this is my social security card" dance.  and then i must be tested. not worried, aside from wondering if i drank enough water. i am ready to go even have my temporary new parking pass in my hands. and…i test positive for opioids. i am totally shocked for a second. she asks if i am on meds (and i am but not the kind that would show up on the test.) and then i remember. breakfast. the everything bagel and cream cheese i eat almost every morning. (my digestive system is weird so what i eat for breakfast is kind of limited.) soo…they took my parking pass away and told me they would call me later in the week, after further testing. i have no idea what levels i have going on b/c again i eat them almost every morning.

Output: TIFU by eating a pumpkin-pie.

Input: Text: this happened about 30 minutes ago.  i am a 17 year old senior in high school with an important paper due tommorow.  i was trying to relax my nerves and get the creative juices flowing by lighting a candle. the pleasant scent did relax me and allowed me to bust out half this paper, while at the same time forcing me into a deep slumber. fast forward 45 mins and mama kirrydragons comes into the room screaming and yelling that i need to finish this paper. i frantically get up and try to focus. the candle is still lit and needs to be disposed. now in my half-asleep state i decided to dump all the wax down my bathroom sink. sadly wax has this amazing ability to cool and solidify in .3 seconds. now im frantically trying to finish this paper and pour drain-o through a clogged sink.

Output: TIFU by fixing a sink.

Input:
Text: i (22f) am a server at a restaurant. last week we had lone male customer come in, and asked to be seated by the window (my area of serving) we immediately hit it off. he was older than me, had a sexy scottish accent, hilariously witty and very out-going. i was thrilled when he left his number on the back of the bill. fast forward one week: after a few small talk texts we decided to meet up, and agree at 3:00pm at the city fountain, right downtown in a busy area. i arrive a few minutes early, and decide to sit in the shade of a nearby statue and wait. within seconds an older, relativley handsome guy wearing sunglasses approaches me. "hey, it's great to see you!"
i smile and greet him, and he immediatley lunges into some big 5 minute long story about a fender bender he got into on his way driving to meet me, and apologized profusseley for being late. by this point i could clearly tell he didn't have a scottish accent. "you don't have nearly as much of an accent that i thought you did, am i crazy?", he laughed and gave me a weird look, agreeing how i must be crazy because he has never had an accent. we continue walking slowly on the downtown strip, making more small talk. by this point i had a feeling something was off.. i could've sworn the accent was the main reason i had been drawn to him in the first place. when he asks me how to produce my name, as the "o with the dots" is relativley uncommon in our country. i say my name (which has the letter o not ö) and he is immediatley giving me a weird look. we stop in the middle of the pathway surrounded by people walking. he takes off his sunglasses, revealing an unfamiliar face. you're not ben are you?" i ask awkwardly, to which he shakes his head. we both burst out in laughter, realizing we clearly fucked up. "i'm supposed to be meeting a girl i've met online, down bedside that statue at 2:30! she's a redhead but i haven't a picture of her face!" we speed walk back to the fountain, both almost in tears due to the hilariously embarrassing moment that we found ourselves in. we part ways just before the fountain, and i see my real date sitting reading a book. didnt mention the ridiculous event that happened moments before, and had a terrific date.

Output: TIFU by going on a date with my boyfriend

Input:
Text: so i managed to get into an arabic language program in jordan and i was stoked for some life experience and this kind of life experience required more than just clothes. i decided to bring my sentiment box for, duh, sentimental things like ticket stubs, the first album i ever bought, an ex’s necklace, things like that. i figured it would be nice to have for the inevitable homesickness. a few days later i’m standing in the amman airport listening to the muezzin, extremely bleary from the wine and xanax i had taken to make the flight bearable, shuffling with the rest of my group towards the baggage scanners.

i don’t know if anybody told you, but there are some security concerns in the middle east from time to time, so bags get scanned on their way out of the airport as well as on the way in. no matter, i’m a law abiding not even remotely terroristic upstanding member of society who recycles and whatever. i plunk the suitcase down on the dirty folding table next to the scanner, walk through a metal detector, and turn around to collect my bag.

except the previously friendly security guards were now looking quite stern and rifling through my bag, and they’re digging for something, and they’re pulling something out. it’s the sentiment box, which i should mention has this picture on the top. the guard opens the box, and pulls out a fucking pair of fucking handcuffs (as in they were used for fucking) that i had tossed into the box weeks earlier in what was supposed to be a *temporary* storage arrangement for them, and had then forgotten about them. the guard holds them way up high so all of my new colleagues can see, then points at me (just in case anybody missed it) and says something in arabic. then two soldiers come and some guy in a leather jacket and jeans who speaks perfect english strides up and motions me into a back room. mind you this is happening in front of a group of people who i have just met, who i will have to live with for the next five and half months, who all now have to wait for me to sort this out.

the leather jacket guy turned out to be an intelligence agent, and he turned out to be pretty cool. he immediately figured out that i was way to un-smooth to be considered any sort of a threat. he let me go after ten minutes (didn't get the cuffs back), which allowed me to get into the bus with the rest of my classmates, who were about to leave without me. i sat in the back corner, did not introduce myself, and pretended to sleep for the entire five-hour ride to where we were staying.

tr;dr a combination of kinkiness and forgetfulness resulted in me getting interrogated by a jordanian intelligence agent and almost abandoned at the amman airport.

Output: TIFU by being kinky in the Middle East.


Input:
Text: title speaks for itself really...
i just wasted $1500 of my parents' money.
i feel terrible.

edit: i guess it wasn't that i took the wrong class, but the class i was taking wouldn't transfer credits over to my university. so really it was my negligence to do more research in the matter. gg

Output: TIFU by taking the wrong class for 2 weeks and only realizing it today

Input:
Text: this happened several years ago. i had a friend "jack" (more like an acquaintance) who got married several years ago. i attended the wedding in houston and all was good. i had moved to chicago shortly after and didn't really keep in touch. about 2 years later, i was in houston over the holidays and ran into him at a family holiday party. the conversation went like this:

"hey jack, it's been a long time! how are you doing?! how's married life treating you?"

"i got divorced."

"oh."  (fml, awkwardness ensues). feeling like a jackass, i apologized and did my best to end the conversation quickly.

Output: TIFU by asking a friend about his married life

Input:
Text: this happened a couple of months ago. in my office we have pcs to work upon. i was due for a location change so i thought it would be good to just put the important data onto some shared folder and then access it from the other location when i reach there. i zipped all the official data and just when i was about to upload the company policy came to my mind. password protect all your data when on shared drives. i protected it using 7zip and put in onto the drive. reached the other location, opened the drive and realized i don't remember the password. tried everything that i could possibly think of (even 12345 & qwerty), even email passwords but it just would not open. could not even use cracks or anything in company systems. sadly gave up hope and lost around 3gb useful data. :/

ps: the shared folder was only accessible to me. setting a password for a file in a folder that is only accessible to me. it could not get worse than this.

Output: TIFU by forgetting password

Input: Text: i applied for a job a week or two back thinking that there was no way i was going to get it b/c i didn't 100% match up with the qualifications. i went to the 2nd round interview to practice/ know what to expect for next time. surprise! i am offered the job, much rejoicing. being the paranoid sort, i asked the people i told not to babble about it, until after i had done the drug test and started training. i don't do drugs but i just wanted everything set up before people got excited for me. which brings us to today. i go to in-processing appointment do the whole " this is my social security card" dance.  and then i must be tested. not worried, aside from wondering if i drank enough water. i am ready to go even have my temporary new parking pass in my hands. and…i test positive for opioids. i am totally shocked for a second. she asks if i am on meds (and i am but not the kind that would show up on the test.) and then i remember. breakfast. the everything bagel and cream cheese i eat almost every morning. (my digestive system is weird so what i eat for breakfast is kind of limited.) soo…they took my parking pass away and told me they would call me later in the week, after further testing. i have no idea what levels i have going on b/c again i eat them almost every morning.

Output: TIFU by eating a pumpkin-pie.

Input: Text: this happened about 30 minutes ago.  i am a 17 year old senior in high school with an important paper due tommorow.  i was trying to relax my nerves and get the creative juices flowing by lighting a candle. the pleasant scent did relax me and allowed me to bust out half this paper, while at the same time forcing me into a deep slumber. fast forward 45 mins and mama kirrydragons comes into the room screaming and yelling that i need to finish this paper. i frantically get up and try to focus. the candle is still lit and needs to be disposed. now in my half-asleep state i decided to dump all the wax down my bathroom sink. sadly wax has this amazing ability to cool and solidify in .3 seconds. now im frantically trying to finish this paper and pour drain-o through a clogged sink.

Output: TIFU by fixing a sink.

Input:
Text: i (22f) am a server at a restaurant. last week we had lone male customer come in, and asked to be seated by the window (my area of serving) we immediately hit it off. he was older than me, had a sexy scottish accent, hilariously witty and very out-going. i was thrilled when he left his number on the back of the bill. fast forward one week: after a few small talk texts we decided to meet up, and agree at 3:00pm at the city fountain, right downtown in a busy area. i arrive a few minutes early, and decide to sit in the shade of a nearby statue and wait. within seconds an older, relativley handsome guy wearing sunglasses approaches me. "hey, it's great to see you!"
i smile and greet him, and he immediatley lunges into some big 5 minute long story about a fender bender he got into on his way driving to meet me, and apologized profusseley for being late. by this point i could clearly tell he didn't have a scottish accent. "you don't have nearly as much of an accent that i thought you did, am i crazy?", he laughed and gave me a weird look, agreeing how i must be crazy because he has never had an accent. we continue walking slowly on the downtown strip, making more small talk. by this point i had a feeling something was off.. i could've sworn the accent was the main reason i had been drawn to him in the first place. when he asks me how to produce my name, as the "o with the dots" is relativley uncommon in our country. i say my name (which has the letter o not ö) and he is immediatley giving me a weird look. we stop in the middle of the pathway surrounded by people walking. he takes off his sunglasses, revealing an unfamiliar face. you're not ben are you?" i ask awkwardly, to which he shakes his head. we both burst out in laughter, realizing we clearly fucked up. "i'm supposed to be meeting a girl i've met online, down bedside that statue at 2:30! she's a redhead but i haven't a picture of her face!" we speed walk back to the fountain, both almost in tears due to the hilariously embarrassing moment that we found ourselves in. we part ways just before the fountain, and i see my real date sitting reading a book. didnt mention the ridiculous event that happened moments before, and had a terrific date.

Output: TIFU by going on a date with my boyfriend

Input:
Text: throwaway.

i am age 19, male, at the time i was young, living with my parents, age 16. i am into bdsm and stuff like that and three years ago, i thought it would be a good idea to try "self bondage".

if only i wasn't an idiot, this would have been no problem at all.

no one was home, and they weren't going to be home for 2-3 hours. basically i had set up a lock on my bed and the key was hanging on the ceiling connected by like a papery plastic thing to ice. when the ice cube melts, the key would drop and i would be free.

i just locked myself in and then the phone was ringing and i figured i should just get and then i'll come back. i grabbed a sock off my bedroom floor and threw it at the key to make it fall down, but the key ended up swinging and flew across the room.

my heart started to panic. oh my god, what if i can't get out and a family member has to release me and finds me like this. i was panicking.

i figured anything would be better than being stuck here, so i tried very hard to get my wrist out of the lock, i just hurt myself and it didn't work. the key was out of reach. i spent 45 minutes trying various things to no use.

then i thought, why don't i move the whole bed? i have a large, heavy wooden bed, i started to pull it, but it hurts my arm a lot. i end up getting a meter away from the key. my bed is diagonal in the room and touches the walls on both sides.

i'm still screwed, stuck. i decide to keeping pulling the bed even though it scrapes the paint off the drywall of my wall. i can now pull myself closer but end up stuck again. i still can't reach the key.

i end up grabbing a magazine with my toes and stretching and stretching until i can final just touch the key. i push the key slightly further away by accident. fuck.

i have to be very careful this time, this is giving my toes a cramp. i forget what item it was, but i grab an item with my toes that was longer and i can finally pull the keys towards me.

i unlock myself, and feel relived but quickly try to clean up as much of the locks and room mess as i can. after only a few minutes of release, my mom comes home and asks why i didn't pick up the phone when she called, she wanted to let me know she'd be home an hour earlier.

then she goes upstairs and asks what the heck happened to my room, i say i was cleaning and changing the layout of my room. she gives me a weird look but doesn't question me further.

i still haven't painted the wall yet, i just covered it up with my bed, i should paint it soon though.

but yeah, this is the story where i dodged being completely humiliated for the rest of my life. i haven't tried something like this ever again.

Output: TIFU (3 years ago) by getting myself trapped in self bondage

TIFU by trying to lock myself in a bed and the key was hanging on the ceiling connected by like a papery plastic thing to ice.


Input:
Text: title speaks for itself really...
i just wasted $1500 of my parents' money.
i feel terrible.

edit: i guess it wasn't that i took the wrong class, but the class i was taking wouldn't transfer credits over to my university. so really it was my negligence to do more research in the matter. gg

Output: TIFU by taking the wrong class for 2 weeks and only realizing it today

Input:
Text: this happened several years ago. i had a friend "jack" (more like an acquaintance) who got married several years ago. i attended the wedding in houston and all was good. i had moved to chicago shortly after and didn't really keep in touch. about 2 years later, i was in houston over the holidays and ran into him at a family holiday party. the conversation went like this:

"hey jack, it's been a long time! how are you doing?! how's married life treating you?"

"i got divorced."

"oh."  (fml, awkwardness ensues). feeling like a jackass, i apologized and did my best to end the conversation quickly.

Output: TIFU by asking a friend about his married life

Input:
Text: this happened a couple of months ago. in my office we have pcs to work upon. i was due for a location change so i thought it would be good to just put the important data onto some shared folder and then access it from the other location when i reach there. i zipped all the official data and just when i was about to upload the company policy came to my mind. password protect all your data when on shared drives. i protected it using 7zip and put in onto the drive. reached the other location, opened the drive and realized i don't remember the password. tried everything that i could possibly think of (even 12345 & qwerty), even email passwords but it just would not open. could not even use cracks or anything in company systems. sadly gave up hope and lost around 3gb useful data. :/

ps: the shared folder was only accessible to me. setting a password for a file in a folder that is only accessible to me. it could not get worse than this.

Output: TIFU by forgetting password

Input: Text: i applied for a job a week or two back thinking that there was no way i was going to get it b/c i didn't 100% match up with the qualifications. i went to the 2nd round interview to practice/ know what to expect for next time. surprise! i am offered the job, much rejoicing. being the paranoid sort, i asked the people i told not to babble about it, until after i had done the drug test and started training. i don't do drugs but i just wanted everything set up before people got excited for me. which brings us to today. i go to in-processing appointment do the whole " this is my social security card" dance.  and then i must be tested. not worried, aside from wondering if i drank enough water. i am ready to go even have my temporary new parking pass in my hands. and…i test positive for opioids. i am totally shocked for a second. she asks if i am on meds (and i am but not the kind that would show up on the test.) and then i remember. breakfast. the everything bagel and cream cheese i eat almost every morning. (my digestive system is weird so what i eat for breakfast is kind of limited.) soo…they took my parking pass away and told me they would call me later in the week, after further testing. i have no idea what levels i have going on b/c again i eat them almost every morning.

Output: TIFU by eating a pumpkin-pie.

Input: Text: this happened about 30 minutes ago.  i am a 17 year old senior in high school with an important paper due tommorow.  i was trying to relax my nerves and get the creative juices flowing by lighting a candle. the pleasant scent did relax me and allowed me to bust out half this paper, while at the same time forcing me into a deep slumber. fast forward 45 mins and mama kirrydragons comes into the room screaming and yelling that i need to finish this paper. i frantically get up and try to focus. the candle is still lit and needs to be disposed. now in my half-asleep state i decided to dump all the wax down my bathroom sink. sadly wax has this amazing ability to cool and solidify in .3 seconds. now im frantically trying to finish this paper and pour drain-o through a clogged sink.

Output: TIFU by fixing a sink.

Input:
Text: i (22f) am a server at a restaurant. last week we had lone male customer come in, and asked to be seated by the window (my area of serving) we immediately hit it off. he was older than me, had a sexy scottish accent, hilariously witty and very out-going. i was thrilled when he left his number on the back of the bill. fast forward one week: after a few small talk texts we decided to meet up, and agree at 3:00pm at the city fountain, right downtown in a busy area. i arrive a few minutes early, and decide to sit in the shade of a nearby statue and wait. within seconds an older, relativley handsome guy wearing sunglasses approaches me. "hey, it's great to see you!"
i smile and greet him, and he immediatley lunges into some big 5 minute long story about a fender bender he got into on his way driving to meet me, and apologized profusseley for being late. by this point i could clearly tell he didn't have a scottish accent. "you don't have nearly as much of an accent that i thought you did, am i crazy?", he laughed and gave me a weird look, agreeing how i must be crazy because he has never had an accent. we continue walking slowly on the downtown strip, making more small talk. by this point i had a feeling something was off.. i could've sworn the accent was the main reason i had been drawn to him in the first place. when he asks me how to produce my name, as the "o with the dots" is relativley uncommon in our country. i say my name (which has the letter o not ö) and he is immediatley giving me a weird look. we stop in the middle of the pathway surrounded by people walking. he takes off his sunglasses, revealing an unfamiliar face. you're not ben are you?" i ask awkwardly, to which he shakes his head. we both burst out in laughter, realizing we clearly fucked up. "i'm supposed to be meeting a girl i've met online, down bedside that statue at 2:30! she's a redhead but i haven't a picture of her face!" we speed walk back to the fountain, both almost in tears due to the hilariously embarrassing moment that we found ourselves in. we part ways just before the fountain, and i see my real date sitting reading a book. didnt mention the ridiculous event that happened moments before, and had a terrific date.

Output: TIFU by going on a date with my boyfriend

Input:
Text: i was recently visiting the us for a conference and was waiting at the gate in the airport, thinking how well the week had gone and i how i hadn't fucked anything up, when the urge to make a significant deposit in the bowl hit me. i thought i'd better see to it before i boarded the 8 hour flight back, so i headed to the toilet.

my diet over the course of my visit hadn't been the best, lots of bbq, burgers, pizza and convenience food and, once i seated myself in a stall, i released a large quantity of matter with varying consistencies... this was going to require no small amount of wiping and this is where i fucked up.

now the walls in these toilet stalls are like those in many american public toilets and, rather than going all the way to the floor, they stopped about a foot or so from the floor and left a gap to the next stall. as i was wiping away, some stray toilet paper, with a good coating of my shit on it, fell loose and began to tumble to the floor. this might not have been a problem, except that it fell down and through the gap to the next stall, landing on the man in that stall's polished leather shoe. he was standing feet pointing to the wall, urinating, and i am certain that he noticed what had happened. as i looked down, after a short moment he shook his foot and the sticky bit of toilet paper eventually came loose. while this happened i kept my head down, kept very quiet and tried to hide my shoes from view lest he later be able to identify me by my footwear. i waited for him to leave before quickly finishing up and making an exit myself, then spent a large portion of the flight home worrying that my shoes might get spotted by the guy and i'd be found out.

Output: TIFU by indirectly pooping on a stranger's shoes


Explanation: Logical Reasoning -> Reasoning with Symbols

In this task, you are given a premise, a hypothesis, and an update. The premise sentence describes a real-world situation and is always assumed to be true. The hypothesis sentence describes an assumption or inference that you might make about that situation having read the premise. The update provides additional information about the situation that might weaken or strengthen the hypothesis. A weakener is a statement that weakens the hypothesis. It makes you much less likely to believe the hypothesis is true. A strengthener is a statement that strengthens the hypothesis. It makes you much more likely to believe the hypothesis is true. Your task is to output 'strengthener' or 'weakener' if the update strengths or weakens the hypothesis, respectively.

Input:
Premise: PersonX seems interested
Hypothesis: PersonX then good activity
Update: PersonX was a good student

Output: strengthener

Explanation: If PersonX was a good student, it is more likely that PersonX would do good activities.

Input:
Premise: PersonX seems interested
Hypothesis: PersonX then good activity
Update: PersonX was faking to get close to a girl

Output: weakener

Explanation: If PersonX was faking to get close to a girl, it is less likely that PersonX would do good activities

Input:
Premise: PersonX seems interested
Hypothesis: PersonX then good activity
Update: PersonX was a good student

Output: I dont know.

Explanation: Do not generate anything else apart from one of the following : 'strengthener', 'weakener'

Input:
Premise: PersonX seems interested
Hypothesis: PersonX then good activity
Update: PersonX was faking to get close to a girl

Output: strengthener,weakener.

Explanation: The update could either strengthen or weaken the hypothesis, not both.

Input:
Premise: PersonX transports PersonY to an island
Hypothesis: As a result, PersonX feels seafaring
Update: PersonX is feeling nauseated from the boatride.

Output: weakener


Input:
Premise: PersonX seems interested
Hypothesis: PersonX then good activity
Update: PersonX was a good student

Output: strengthener

Input:
Premise: PersonX seems interested
Hypothesis: PersonX then good activity
Update: PersonX was faking to get close to a girl

Output: weakener

Input:
Premise: PersonX seems interested
Hypothesis: PersonX then good activity
Update: PersonX was a good student

Output: I dont know.

Input:
Premise: PersonX seems interested
Hypothesis: PersonX then good activity
Update: PersonX was faking to get close to a girl

Output: strengthener,weakener.

Input:
Premise: PersonX sprains PersonX's wrist
Hypothesis: As a result, PersonX feels unfit
Update: PersonX was trying to lift weights at the gym when they sprained their wrist.

Output: strengthener


Input:
Premise: PersonX seems interested
Hypothesis: PersonX then good activity
Update: PersonX was a good student

Output: strengthener

Input:
Premise: PersonX seems interested
Hypothesis: PersonX then good activity
Update: PersonX was faking to get close to a girl

Output: weakener

Input:
Premise: PersonX seems interested
Hypothesis: PersonX then good activity
Update: PersonX was a good student

Output: I dont know.

Input:
Premise: PersonX seems interested
Hypothesis: PersonX then good activity
Update: PersonX was faking to get close to a girl

Output: strengthener,weakener.

Input:
Premise: PersonX keeps an eye peeled
Hypothesis: As a result, PersonX wants find what they were looking for
Update: PersonX has been asked to look out for potential big spenders.

Output: strengthener


Input:
Premise: PersonX seems interested
Hypothesis: PersonX then good activity
Update: PersonX was a good student

Output: strengthener

Input:
Premise: PersonX seems interested
Hypothesis: PersonX then good activity
Update: PersonX was faking to get close to a girl

Output: weakener

Input:
Premise: PersonX seems interested
Hypothesis: PersonX then good activity
Update: PersonX was a good student

Output: I dont know.

Input:
Premise: PersonX seems interested
Hypothesis: PersonX then good activity
Update: PersonX was faking to get close to a girl

Output: strengthener,weakener.

Input:
Premise: PersonX expresses PersonX's belief
Hypothesis: Because PersonX wanted to share what he believes in
Update: PersonX had a speech assigned for class.

Output: weakener


Input:
Premise: PersonX seems interested
Hypothesis: PersonX then good activity
Update: PersonX was a good student

Output: strengthener

Input:
Premise: PersonX seems interested
Hypothesis: PersonX then good activity
Update: PersonX was faking to get close to a girl

Output: weakener

Input:
Premise: PersonX seems interested
Hypothesis: PersonX then good activity
Update: PersonX was a good student

Output: I dont know.

Input:
Premise: PersonX seems interested
Hypothesis: PersonX then good activity
Update: PersonX was faking to get close to a girl

Output: strengthener,weakener.

Input:
Premise: PersonX plays so well
Hypothesis: As a result, PersonX wants find more people to play with
Update: PersonX enjoys playing team sports.

Output: strengthener