Are you sure about that? Because I'm fairly certain I've never heard of such a thing.
[If it's a date then it's beyond "friends" by definition, right? Granted, he may not have been in a relationship in a very long time, but he's not oblivious to this stuff.]
Oh, you need a best friend, then. Someone to take for coffee and donuts, to see movies with, you know...friend dates. I mean, not like I have a lot of experience with this shit myself, but that level of hanging out is more than just an outing.
[Yes, but. Even jokes get dissected and taken as if they're discussion points. It's like how he argues with Hermann. It's like how that Caboose thread got so out of hand.]
Why'd you have to go and make it MATHY? Do you have a friendship equation, too? For your information, friendship is measured in amīcī, singular amīcus. Let's say we abbreviate it, uh, ami. A relationship with the highest level of ami is the Best Friend relationship, but of course you can have an un-reciprocated Best Friendship where, say, Persons A and B have a high level of ami between them--the highest ami A has with anyone--but Persons B and C have a higher level of ami (the highest for both of them), so B is A's Best Friendship, but B and C are each other's Best Friends. A could also choose not to observe any Best Friendship because theirs is not a mutual one. It's complicated.
[Good lord, leave it to the biologist to pick everything apart. He laughs, though.] There's a slight possibility you're overthinking this, Newt. And that's coming from me.
[Though he briefly entertains the thought of whether "amis" are subject to overflow error. You know, where you go so far off the friend chart that it loops around to the far negative extreme (or vice versa). It's not a great analogy, though, so he's not gonna run with it.]
Hm. I suppose I ought to dress up a little, oughtn't I? It wouldn't be much of a masquerade if I just wore the same thing as always.
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[If it's a date then it's beyond "friends" by definition, right? Granted, he may not have been in a relationship in a very long time, but he's not oblivious to this stuff.]
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[THIS IS A JOKE, obviously]
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Why'd you have to go and make it MATHY? Do you have a friendship equation, too? For your information, friendship is measured in amīcī, singular amīcus. Let's say we abbreviate it, uh, ami. A relationship with the highest level of ami is the Best Friend relationship, but of course you can have an un-reciprocated Best Friendship where, say, Persons A and B have a high level of ami between them--the highest ami A has with anyone--but Persons B and C have a higher level of ami (the highest for both of them), so B is A's Best Friendship, but B and C are each other's Best Friends. A could also choose not to observe any Best Friendship because theirs is not a mutual one. It's complicated.
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[Though he briefly entertains the thought of whether "amis" are subject to overflow error. You know, where you go so far off the friend chart that it loops around to the far negative extreme (or vice versa). It's not a great analogy, though, so he's not gonna run with it.]
Hm. I suppose I ought to dress up a little, oughtn't I? It wouldn't be much of a masquerade if I just wore the same thing as always.