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0 pointsdane-pgp4y ago0 comments

I'm really impressed with how readable and how funny that is, but I'm sure I'm missing at least one of the jokes contained within. In particular, they suggest an extension to their protocol called "SENPAI-MTT (More Than Two)", which I'm sure must be a cleverly chosen backronym, but I can't work out why (or if) it is funny.

My initial thought was that it could be a reference to the Japanese verb meaning "to look"[0], such as mite ita ("was looking") but represented in vowelless chatspeak[1]. More logical, though, would be the verb meaning "to notice"[2], but the imperative would be kizuite kudasai ("please notice!")[2], and that doesn't match "MTT" at all.

[0] http://www.japaneseverbconjugator.com/VerbDetails.asp?txtVer...

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/LearnJapanese/comments/bupbs9/about...

[2] http://www.japaneseverbconjugator.com/VerbDetails.asp?txtVer...

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doctor_eval4y ago· 1 in thread

I know absolutely nothing about this but would it not be referring to polygamous relationships?

dane-pgpOP4y ago

The paper does discuss such relationships, but "SENPAI-MTT (More Than Two)" is an extension to the protocol to allow a participant to choose from more than two (i.e. Crush / No Crush) possible opinions about someone.

It's in the section titled "Ternary Responses", and covers the use case of a participant wanting to express "Maybe" as an opinion.

Oh, actually, I might have worked it out. It could be that "More Than Two" is designed to be somehow the reverse of "Less Than Three", which represents a heart.

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