I'm not a grammar Nazi, but ...
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| djohnston Jan 24, 2013 5:17 PM EDT |
What is it with native English speakers who don't understand their own language?Quoting:Well, SprezzOS is now out in the while. Well, if it wasn't it would be wild, wouldn't it? Better than that something else, I guess. If the code is to lose, the developers might loose it. |
| HoTMetaL Jan 24, 2013 8:34 PM EDT |
The texting generation is comfortable with literary stupidity. It's only getting worst. |
| BernardSwiss Jan 24, 2013 10:56 PM EDT |
The renowned linguist, Dr. Henry Higgins, addressed this topic quite some years ago, when the problem was even worse: YouTube: Why Can't The English? |
| djohnston Jan 25, 2013 12:06 AM EDT |
Quoting:It's only getting worst. 8^) |
| jacog Jan 25, 2013 3:44 AM EDT |
Only u can make a different's. |
| caitlyn Jan 25, 2013 1:31 PM EDT |
Just remember what catbert said: The longer you work here diverse it gets. HoTMetaL is wright. It's only getting wurst. |
| nickblack Jan 31, 2013 11:46 AM EDT |
whoa, surely i didn't post such, did i? |
| nickblack Jan 31, 2013 11:48 AM EDT |
i hope that was in a comment, and not my original posting of the video. i'm typically a militant grammarian, and would hope to be corrected on such! sorry for the late reply; i just found this in an unrelated search :). --nick black (founder, sprezzos project) |
| djohnston Feb 01, 2013 7:24 AM EDT |
Quoting:i hope that was in a comment, and not my original posting of the video. i'm typically a militant grammarian, and would hope to be corrected on such! No, Nick, it was a quote from the second line of the article on Phoronix. Ordinarily, I'd just let it slide. I must have had a bee in my bonnet that day. |
| CFWhitman Feb 01, 2013 10:08 AM EDT |
To be fair, this most likely is really a problem with inadequate proofreading rather than anyone not knowing that the proper word is "wild." It's the old typo followed by a 'too quick spell check run' error. That is, he makes a typo like typing "e" rather than "d" and ends up with "wile" instead of "wild." Then he runs a spell check to catch errors in the article, the first suggestion is "while" (of course) and he makes another error in accepting that without looking too closely. |
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