New "current status" page

[bzar]

Updated current status page (via ED's twitter feed)


This is so much better

 

[Aninhumer]

@EvilDragon

all boards of batch 2 until christmas.

That should probably be "by" rather than "until".


Just in the interests of professionalism and clarity.

 

[WizardStan]

That should probably be "by" rather than "until".


Just in the interests of professionalism and clarity.

It's grammatically correct German, if he were to have written it in German

 

[Christoph.Krn]

@EvilDragon


That should probably be "by" rather than "until".


Just in the interests of professionalism and clarity.

when germans say ‘until’, what do they mean?

This is a great question, actually, and I hope you come back for the answer. When Germans say “until” and you are confused, it is because they probably mean “by”. Prepositions are really tough things in languages because even though they have one translation in one context, they often mean something different in another context. The German word bis is most directly translated as “until”, but in terms of a deadline, it should be translated as “by”. Every German will get this wrong until they die. They will always say “until” instead of “by” in this case, when referring to when they will do something, or when something is due.

Source: http://nothingforungood.com/unanswered-google-queries/


But don't worry, I'm sure someone will get this sorted until the end of time.

 

[neko]

The problem is that in this context, "by" means "before", and "until" means "before, but not after" and these meanings aren't the same.


To have "all boards of batch 2 until christmas" literally means:


- Before christmas we will have all boards of batch 2.


- After christmas we will not have all boards of batch 2.


The statement would be true if they shipped the first batch 2 pandoras on christmas day... and I don't think that's what ED meant.