<!>Obsessed with Dwarf Fortress, Send Help (2014-03-28 02:16:18)
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? Rhetorica Your Writing System Sucks
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...it actually means "it is useless to speculate about situations incompatible with the present circumstances," but it's all the same ballpark. Wiktionary has a rather bluntly-titled page devoted to the adage and similar, of which English has a number, for no readily discernible reason.