Silly puzzle of the day
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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." 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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Universal DBA | Ajax Rating | ExplorerTree | Globalization in 20 minutes4 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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Currently working on C++/CLI in Action for Manning Publications. Also visit the Ultimate Toolbox blog (New)>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?
Regards, Nish
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Currently working on C++/CLI in Action for Manning Publications. Also visit the Ultimate Toolbox blog (New)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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3 They weren't playing against each other.
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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)
'f's isn't an error. The f was just wrapped in quotes, to indicate the character F.
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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." 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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Universal DBA | Ajax Rating | ExplorerTree | Globalization in 20 minutes3: 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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>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:
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]
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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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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 :-)
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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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So 4, since the first sentence said it had two errors.
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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]
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Currently working on C++/CLI in Action for Manning Publications. Also visit the Ultimate Toolbox blog (New)What the deuce!? :-D me too
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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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Jon Sagara wrote:
- "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 :-)
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What the deuce!? :-D me too
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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?
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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?
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Currently working on C++/CLI in Action for Manning Publications. Also visit the Ultimate Toolbox blog (New)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
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Josh Smith wrote:
That's for me to know and you to die wondering...
:-D
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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]
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Currently working on C++/CLI in Action for Manning Publications. Also visit the Ultimate Toolbox blog (New)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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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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Universal DBA | Ajax Rating | ExplorerTree | Globalization in 20 minutesdiv>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.
m.bergman
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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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So 4, since the first sentence said it had two errors.
:doh:
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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.
m.bergman
-- For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.
Michael Bergman wrote:
- div>santence, and punctuation error
The comma is not a punctuation error. This is a compound sentence joined with the 'and' conjunction. Anytime that the sentence fragment after the conjunction contains both a subject and predicate (noun and verb) it can stand alone as a complete sentence in its own right. When that occurs, the comma is required before the conjunction. In the second part of the sentence, 'There' is the subject, and 'are' is the predicate.
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Michael Bergman wrote:
- div>santence, and punctuation error
The comma is not a punctuation error. This is a compound sentence joined with the 'and' conjunction. Anytime that the sentence fragment after the conjunction contains both a subject and predicate (noun and verb) it can stand alone as a complete sentence in its own right. When that occurs, the comma is required before the conjunction. In the second part of the sentence, 'There' is the subject, and 'are' is the predicate.