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  • R Raj Lal

    There are five 'f's in the next santence, and ther’are two errors in this one. "It's often quite easy for folks to miss the finer points of life." How many errors are there in the first sentence? Ok if you can't figure out this one try your hands on this Two cpians played eleven consecutive games of chess. None of games were drawn, Every game was completed Yet Both players won/lost same number of games as each other. puzzled ? How could this happen?

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    Josh Smith
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    3 They weren't playing against each other.

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      3 They weren't playing against each other.

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      Nish Nishant
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      Josh Smith wrote:

      3

      Why 3, Josh?

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      • R Raj Lal

        There are five 'f's in the next santence, and ther’are two errors in this one. "It's often quite easy for folks to miss the finer points of life." How many errors are there in the first sentence? Ok if you can't figure out this one try your hands on this Two cpians played eleven consecutive games of chess. None of games were drawn, Every game was completed Yet Both players won/lost same number of games as each other. puzzled ? How could this happen?

        Omit Needless Words - Strunk, William, Jr.


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        Nish Nishant
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        Quartz... wrote:

        Two cpians played eleven consecutive games of chess.

        Not against each other I guess :-)

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        • R Raj Lal

          There are five 'f's in the next santence, and ther’are two errors in this one. "It's often quite easy for folks to miss the finer points of life." How many errors are there in the first sentence? Ok if you can't figure out this one try your hands on this Two cpians played eleven consecutive games of chess. None of games were drawn, Every game was completed Yet Both players won/lost same number of games as each other. puzzled ? How could this happen?

          Omit Needless Words - Strunk, William, Jr.


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          Kacee Giger
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          4 errors - 'f's, santence, ther'are, and two errors (since there were three) The two cpians weren't playing against each other (at least not for all 11 games)

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            Josh Smith wrote:

            3

            Why 3, Josh?

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            >There are five 'f's in the next santence, and ther’are two errors in this one. >"It's often quite easy for folks to miss the finer points of life." "santence" should be sentence "ther'are" should be there are The second sentence has 6 f's, not 5. -- modified at 14:19 Thursday 31st August, 2006 :sigh: thanks nish -- but it's 6 f's

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              Josh Smith wrote:

              3

              Why 3, Josh?

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              Red Stateler
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              4 errors. Error: There are five 'f's (there are 6) Error: in the next santence, (sentence misspelled) Error: and ther’are (there are) Error: two errors in this one. (There were 3 and now actually 4)


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              • J Josh Smith

                3 They weren't playing against each other.

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                Raj Lal
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                not too fast :)

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                  4 errors - 'f's, santence, ther'are, and two errors (since there were three) The two cpians weren't playing against each other (at least not for all 11 games)

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                  'f's isn't an error. The f was just wrapped in quotes, to indicate the character F.

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                  • R Raj Lal

                    There are five 'f's in the next santence, and ther’are two errors in this one. "It's often quite easy for folks to miss the finer points of life." How many errors are there in the first sentence? Ok if you can't figure out this one try your hands on this Two cpians played eleven consecutive games of chess. None of games were drawn, Every game was completed Yet Both players won/lost same number of games as each other. puzzled ? How could this happen?

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                    Jon Sagara
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                    3: 1) santence 2) ther’are 3) "It's often quite easy for folks to miss the finer points of life." That's 6 'f's by my count.

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                    • J Josh Smith

                      >There are five 'f's in the next santence, and ther’are two errors in this one. >"It's often quite easy for folks to miss the finer points of life." "santence" should be sentence "ther'are" should be there are The second sentence has 6 f's, not 5. -- modified at 14:19 Thursday 31st August, 2006 :sigh: thanks nish -- but it's 6 f's

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                      Nish Nishant
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                      Josh Smith wrote:

                      The second sentence has 4 f's, not 5.

                      It's often quite easy for folks to miss the finer points of life 5 'f's there. [edit]Blast! I missed the 6th 'f' in 'of' :doh:[/edit]

                      Regards, Nish


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                        4 errors. Error: There are five 'f's (there are 6) Error: in the next santence, (sentence misspelled) Error: and ther’are (there are) Error: two errors in this one. (There were 3 and now actually 4)


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                        Nish Nishant
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                        espeir wrote:

                        Error: There are five 'f's (there are 6)

                        It's often quite easy for folks to miss the finer points of life Ahhhhh ok :-)

                        Regards, Nish


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                        • J Jon Sagara

                          3: 1) santence 2) ther’are 3) "It's often quite easy for folks to miss the finer points of life." That's 6 'f's by my count.

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                          Kacee Giger
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                          So 4, since the first sentence said it had two errors.

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                          • N Nish Nishant

                            Josh Smith wrote:

                            The second sentence has 4 f's, not 5.

                            It's often quite easy for folks to miss the finer points of life 5 'f's there. [edit]Blast! I missed the 6th 'f' in 'of' :doh:[/edit]

                            Regards, Nish


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                            Josh Smith
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                            What the deuce!? :-D me too

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                            • J Jon Sagara

                              3: 1) santence 2) ther’are 3) "It's often quite easy for folks to miss the finer points of life." That's 6 'f's by my count.

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                              Nish Nishant
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                              Jon Sagara wrote:

                              1. "It's often quite easy for folks to miss the finer points of life." That's 6 'f's by my count.

                              yes, so the "two errors" is the 4th error as there are 6 :-)

                              Regards, Nish


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                              • J Josh Smith

                                What the deuce!? :-D me too

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                                Nish Nishant
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                                Josh Smith wrote:

                                What the deuce!?

                                I missed the 'f' in 'of', which I think you did too. But you missed one more 'f' since you counted only 4 - which was the other one you missed, Josh?

                                Regards, Nish


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                                  Josh Smith wrote:

                                  What the deuce!?

                                  I missed the 'f' in 'of', which I think you did too. But you missed one more 'f' since you counted only 4 - which was the other one you missed, Josh?

                                  Regards, Nish


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                                  Josh Smith
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                                  Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

                                  which was the other one you missed, Josh?

                                  That's for me to know and you to die wondering... ;P

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                                    Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

                                    which was the other one you missed, Josh?

                                    That's for me to know and you to die wondering... ;P

                                    :josh: My WPF Blog[^]

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                                    Nish Nishant
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                                    Josh Smith wrote:

                                    That's for me to know and you to die wondering...

                                    :-D

                                    Regards, Nish


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                                      Josh Smith wrote:

                                      The second sentence has 4 f's, not 5.

                                      It's often quite easy for folks to miss the finer points of life 5 'f's there. [edit]Blast! I missed the 6th 'f' in 'of' :doh:[/edit]

                                      Regards, Nish


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                                      Ashley van Gerven
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                                      Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

                                      Blast! I missed the 6th 'f' in 'of'

                                      That's probably because if you wrote it like it's pronounced it would be written as ov. Try counting any f's in a sentence and you'll invariably miss all all the "of" f's unless you really look for them :doh:

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                                      • R Raj Lal

                                        There are five 'f's in the next santence, and ther’are two errors in this one. "It's often quite easy for folks to miss the finer points of life." How many errors are there in the first sentence? Ok if you can't figure out this one try your hands on this Two cpians played eleven consecutive games of chess. None of games were drawn, Every game was completed Yet Both players won/lost same number of games as each other. puzzled ? How could this happen?

                                        Omit Needless Words - Strunk, William, Jr.


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                                        Michael Bergman
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                                        div>five 'f's

                                        factual error, there are six. 2)

                                        div>santence

                                        Spelling error. 3)

                                        div>santence, and

                                        punctuation error 4 & 5)

                                        div>ther’are

                                        punctuation (no space between words/use of apostrophe) and spelling (ther') 6)

                                        two errors in this one

                                        factual error, there are six.

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                                          'f's isn't an error. The f was just wrapped in quotes, to indicate the character F.

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                                          Josh Smith wrote:

                                          'f's isn't an error.

                                          Yeah but I think he's right about 4 errors - he's the only first one that seems to have noticed that "two errors" should be "four errors". Or is that the "mystery error" that you alluded to to Nish? (but you said 3 errors) :confused:

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